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Spektor was born in Moscow (in the former Soviet Union), to a musical Jewish family. Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist, and her mother was a music professor in a Russian college of music; her mother now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
Spektor learned how to play piano by practicing on a Petrof that was 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. Unfortunately, Regina had to leave her piano behind. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to ethnic and political discrimination that Jews were faced with.
Travelling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated from the SAR Academy, a middle school yeshiva in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She then attended high school for two years on a scholarship at the Frisch School, a yeshiva in Paramus, New Jersey, 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 hip hop, rock, and punk, as well.
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I’ve said before, I like her, but I don’t like that she can be quite samey.
What’s her new album like?
I’ve only heard one of her songs… “Samson”. I absolutely love it, but I can’t find any of her work in the stores where I live. Not even the music stores that sell uncommon stuff. I suppose I could order some CDs online.
By the way, the only albums you will find in stores are Soviet Kitsch and her newest one. Songs (which Samson is on) and 11:11 are only online at her website or cdbaby.com. :)
I like the cover of Soviet Kitsch ^^
Who originally did it?
Whoops..I mean album cover..Regina drinking :)
Ah yes.
I’ve only heard ‘Fidelity’ and I love it!
new album is pretty different from the older stuff, but still darn good.
and her live performance is still great
She’s pretty nifty I must say.
i love “consequence of sounds”; her older stuff is definitely better and more original, her newer seems more processed. but i love her. :]
Regina Spektor.. what can I say… although her songs are very much random, but you can’t help but fall in love with them.. it’s one of those things.. captivates you from the very moment you listen to…. I love her.. I love how she is down to earth, and modest… The best
I was singing her song not less than 3 minutes ago.
did you know that she’s russian?
No, but she looks Russian. Those bigs lips are a dead give away.
You should really read up on her! Her life story is fascinating, yet she’s so young!
Yes, I should to that sometime. Too bad I hate reating. I might give a try for Regina Spektor though.
reading* how ironic was that spelling error?
I’ll do half the work for you!
From Wikipedia (though I read a much better article somewhere a few years ago) :
_Spektor was born in Moscow (in the former Soviet Union), to a musical Jewish family. Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist, and her mother was a music professor in a Russian college of music; her mother now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
Spektor learned how to play piano by practicing on a Petrof that was 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. Unfortunately, Regina had to leave her piano behind. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to ethnic and political discrimination that Jews were faced with.
Travelling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated from the SAR Academy, a middle school yeshiva in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She then attended high school for two years on a scholarship at the Frisch School, a yeshiva in Paramus, New Jersey, 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 hip hop, rock, and punk, as well._
WOW . you really should put that in her description!^
and ps, i love it when she goes
and it breaks my heart-ahrt-ahrt-ahrt-ahrt
in “fidelity”!
but i’m russian i dont have big lips.. she’s an ethnic russian though. i think she’s jewish.. or persian or arabian decendance.. i’m not completely sure check on wikipedia lol. but russian is her native language so i guess you can count her as a native russian. =]
You’re right, that was a stupid generalization on my part. Sorry.
It’s too bad she sucks live.
Really?
I heard she is rather good live.
She was horrible at Bonnaroo this year, she even forgot some lyrics. Very lame, I left to listen to gogol bordello instead.
We all have our bad days.
Ah, love her! Just listened to her today and got one of my guy friends totally addicted to her amazing music!
Regina was awesome when she played recently in Melbourne. She sounded better live than on her studio album.
Her song “Samson” is amazing. It’s really beautiful and simple. I love her.
She`s amazing!
I love the song Fidelity!
I love her love her love her!!
I adore all of her songs!
i like her song The Call- it's really good
i <3 the song "you dont know me" with ben folds.
Ugh. I see no real Regina Spektor fans on here. Her best music consists of online and underground demos and live recordings. She has two independent albums also which kick her two major label albums’ asses. You are not a Regina Spektor fan until you know the lyrics to songs such as Loveology, Back of a Truck, Man of a Thousand Faces, Prisoners, One More Time With Feeling, The Clocks were Asleep, I Cut Off My Hair, Scarecrow and Fungus, Daniel Cowman, Dulce et Decorum Est Patria Mori, Soho, Happy Hooker, The Wallet, Baby Jesus, Dance Anthem of 80s…
REGINA SPEKTOR IS INCREDIBLY AMAZING LIVE! Anyone who says different does not know what the fuck they're talking about. Her studio recordings stunt her melodic ability and do not lend to the full experience her music is capable and worthy of. Most of her music she's ever written has ONLY been performed live, and if it were to be put on a CD it just would lose so much quality because her music is MADE to be experienced live.Her new shit sucks SO HARD!