Regina Spektor
Known for: Acting
Born: February 17, 1980 in Moscow, Russia
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical Russian-Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Spektor has a brother, Boruch (also known as Bear). Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. She grew up listening to classical music and famous Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to rock and roll bands such as the Beatles, Queen, and the Moody Blues.
Known for
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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
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Regina Spektor: Live in London
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
Hava Nagila: The Movie
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The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
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Adam Green's Aladdin
Concerned Townsperson
Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
Echo in the Canyon
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Other Music
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The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
Herself
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Colbert Report
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The View
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The Romanoffs
Special Vocal Performance
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
Bombshell
Songs
Modern Love
Songs