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Moscow, Soviet Union (2001 – present)
Regina Spektor was born on February 18th, 1980, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical family. Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist. Her mother was a music professor in a Russian conservatory and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practicing on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia, but they finally decided to emigrate, for religious and political reasons.
Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated from a middle school yeshiva. She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey on a scholarship for two years, but, feeling out of place, eventually transferred to a secular public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school career.
Spektor has stated that she was originally interested only in classical music, but that she later became interested in pop, rock, and punk as well.
Beginnings as a songwriter
Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practicing on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia, but they finally decided to emigrate, for religious and political reasons.
Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated from a middle school yeshiva. She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey on a scholarship for two years, but, feeling out of place, eventually transferred to a secular public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school career.
Spektor has stated that she was originally interested only in classical music, but that she later became interested in pop, rock, and punk as well.
Beginnings as a songwriter
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spankmyfrank wrote:
1111 played track. 8)
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Adio_Bam wrote:
new song sounds sooo good, no doubt the best female singer-songwriter out there
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arulpragasam wrote:
great show last night
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Swedish northern forest indie poppers Heart-Sick Groans back with another charming science of sleep-y video for their lemon fresh track "Three Day Blow"!!! --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8RVX_yUwV0 DONT MISS!!!
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Cristobal91 wrote:
I hadn't listened to Far since it leaked months ago cause I thought it was boring at first, but now I suddenly started falling in love with it, it's got quite a few gems just like her other works.
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jjjul wrote:
new song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBesYCdYjI
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aloor wrote:
Regina we love you! Please come back to Italy!! Italian fan base http://www.reginaspektor.it
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Enokii wrote:
I think her duet with The strokes is amazing, her voice goes so well with Julian's one.
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igottrouble wrote:
hey remember that month when I only ate boxes of tangerines? so cheap and juicy!
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rocio820 wrote:
i saw regina .... i saw regina!!!!!!! I SAW REGINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 it was amazing and she was so pretty ...... i cried when she played samson =]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] i shall see her again one day.... that i shall.
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jjjul wrote:
когда же в россию она приедет наконец?!?!?!
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abbyrowling wrote:
original. just brilliant.
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tesabball34 wrote:
i love this woman. with all of my heart. :)
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ahhlehx wrote:
Lol.
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kiwibeard wrote:
i need to sleep now
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spankmyfrank wrote:
Why choose a favorite album to listen to?... I think all of her songs are brilliant, I could never even choose a favorite album or a least favorite. [2] So true. Everything she does is amazing. Or, well.. everything but Uh-Merica.. can't stand that song.
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ahhlehx wrote:
Why choose a favorite album to listen to?... I think all of her songs are brilliant, I could never even choose a favorite album or a least favorite.
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superbond2 wrote:
Seeing her this thursday in louisville. super-excited.
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JSonicC wrote:
Its because the way people listen to music. Everyone listens to the new album when its out, and over time its back to the old favorite,
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lilakmess wrote:
I'm a big fan of her latest album.
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Regina on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 11/06/2009
5 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/reginaspektor
Regina will be appearing on The Late, Late Show with
Craig Ferguson (CBS) on the night of Friday, November 6, 2009 (early morning of November 7th), right after the David Letterman's Late Show:12:37-1. …
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