A Colorful Artist and Pianist
Regina Spektor was born on February 18, 1980, in Moscow, Russia, to a musical family. Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist, and her mother was a music professor in a Russian conservatory; she 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.
Travelling 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 (read more)
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Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All of these voices
I hear in my mind all of these words
I hear in my mind all of this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
when it breaks my heart
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Regina_Fan wrote
Just wanted to let all my fellow Regina fans know that Torrid stores are having a Regina Spektor listening party THIS Saturday 6/20 from 3 - 6 pm. We can pre-order the album and listen to the entire album before the street date!!! Also, they're giving out super cute Regina posters to the first 25 attendees!! LOVE, LOVE IT!!
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Regina_Fan
Posted June 20, 2009
Pupymeluv wrote
Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to learn how to play The Call on the computer, but I can't find the Sheet Music anywhere for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or where you can just print it up, everybody wants money thease days, I wnt your music in my hads and in the tips of my fingers. I LOVE YOUR MUSC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted January 25, 2009
moon_spark wrote
i really like your music and your lyrics
Posted October 18, 2008
David wrote
your music keeps me sane.
Posted September 16, 2008
Christine wrote
<3 her.
Posted December 06, 2007
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