About 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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Regina Spektor has appeared in 11 movies.
These include White Chicks, Regina Spektor: Live in London, The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch, Regina Spektor - Live on Soundstage, Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories, Other Music, Hava Nagila: The Movie, Echo in the Canyon, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song and Adam Green's Aladdin.TV Credits
Regina Spektor has appeared in 8 TV Series.
These include Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Romanoffs, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The View and Saturday Night Live.