Regina spektor bio biography
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Regina Spektor was born in Moscow, USSR to a musical Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Russian college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school in New York. Spektor learned how to play piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that was given to her mother by her grandfather. The family left the Soviet Union in due to the ethnic and political discrimination which Jews faced; Regina was nine and had to leave her piano family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated in Fair Lawn public high school. She gradually achieved recognition through performances in the anti-folk scene in downtown New York City, most importantly at the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe. She sold self-produced CDs at her performances during this period: () and Songs (). Her other album Soviet Kitsch () was also self produced but Sire and Shoplifter Records help produce the album, while Begin to Hope () was completely produced by Sire records. Regina Spektor is best known for her real lyrics that are supported with her completely recognizable and unique voice.
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A veteran of New York's anti-folk scene, songwriter Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Western pop and rock as a young child and also learned to play piano. She and her family moved from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture. Spektor further developed her classical piano training by attending the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory. During her studies, she was exposed to blues and jazz artists like Billie Holiday, who would have a significant influence on Spektor’s music.
After gaining popularity from two successful album releases, subsequent tours with the Strokes, Kings of Leon, Mates of State, and the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson further raised Spektor's profile and brought her to the attention of international audiences. Accordingly, she toured the U.K., where the success of "Us" as a European single led to the release of the CD/DVD retrospective Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories early in That summer, Begin to Hope, her first album of original material for Sire Records, arrived. Begin to Hope enjoyed popularity on both s