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Regina Spektor was born on February 18th, 1980, in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the United States when she was nine. 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, 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.
Beginnings as a songwriter
Traveling 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.
Beginnings as a songwriter
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katia111 wrote:
Hotel Song
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Sexy default.
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absolutely beautiful.
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she's so good.
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I love her.
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v Exactly.
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Gremlin_Minsk wrote:
если бы у нее был альбом на руссском языке, то это была бы бомба. Хотя для пробника можно было бы послушать и пару демок
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adamzZz wrote:
I've been studying Russia for about six years and I have to admit that it's really easy to learn and it sounds really beautiful from time to time. A new album, entirely sung in Russian would be perfect for me.
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rrrrrmmmmm wrote:
If she had an album in Russian I'd memorize it and be able to sing along and have no idea what it meant, like the part in Apres Moi <3
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spankmyfrank wrote:
She could do a whole album in Russian and I'd adore it.. even though I dislike the language and don't understand a thing of it. It wouldn't matter 'cause she just makes it sound so beautiful.
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Regina Spektor you are my God <3 [2]
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Milky123 wrote:
just starting listening to her and WOW!
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noorey wrote:
I would love to hear her record something in Russian! Après Moi with this one stanza in Russian is amazing...
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FaithPuppeteer wrote:
Amazing indeed.
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amazing :}
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♥
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Love.
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Beautiful!
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Regina on NBC's"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Tue. Feb. 9th
8 Feb 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/reginaspektor
Regina Spektor will be a musical guest on NBC's
"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday, February 9th
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