Regina Spektor
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.
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Films (11)
Hallelujah, les mots de Leonard Cohen
2022 · Self
Scandale
2019 · Songs
L'Écho de Laurel Canyon
2019 · Self
Other Music
2019 · Self
Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
2017 · Music, Lyricist
Adam Green's Aladdin
2016 · Concerned Townsperson
Hava Nagila: The Movie
2012 · Self
Regina Spektor: Live in London
2010 · Lyricist, Music, Writer
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
2006 · Self
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2006 · Writer, Director
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2004 · Herself, Director, Lyricist, Writer, Art Direction, Producer, Music
Séries (13)
Modern Love
2019 · Songs
The Romanoffs
2018 · Special Vocal Performance
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Musical Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self, Self - Musical Guest
The Colbert Report
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Musical Guest
VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Self
The View
1997 · Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Musical Guest
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Musical Guest