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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
February 18, 1980Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
14Place of birth
Moscow, RussiaAlso known as
Регина Ильинична Спектор, Regina Ilyinichna SpektorCast credits
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
SelfRegina Spektor: Live in London
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
Hava Nagila: The Movie
SelfAdam Green's Aladdin
Concerned TownspersonRegina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
Echo in the Canyon
SelfOther Music
SelfThe Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
Herself