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New York, United States (2001 – present)

Regina Spektor was born on 18th February 1980, in Moscow, ex-USSR, and moved to the United States when she was nine. Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practising 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.

Travelling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, United States 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.

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.
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    I'm just a soul, who's intentions are good. Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.

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    The charts! :) Patron Saint !

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  • FatShades

    Oh, also - love the new album heart heart heart [infinity]

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    What We Saw From the Cheap Seats is making my soul ripple up and down with joyous serenity. Everything is good and right for me at the moment. Oh, thank you, Regina Spektor. You'll never truly know the positive influence you have on so many people. Thank you.

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    love the new album ♥♥♥ [3]

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  • Omertalvendetta

    Not a big fan of Oh Marcello and the gasps in Open, but overall it's a great album!

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    the last album is amazing!

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    Her new album is so beautiful

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Not from Regina: Super Bock Super Rock Festival, Sesimbra, Portugal

2 Mar 2012 | from blog.myspace.com/reginaspektor

Regina will perform at the Super Bock Super Rock Festival in Sesimbra, Portugal on July 7, 2012.Tickets will be available at:www.ticketline.pt

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