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Regina Spektor
By All Music Guide
A veteran of New Yorks anti-folk scene, Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her fathers bootleg tapes of Western pop and rock as a young child and also learned to play piano. She and her family moved from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture (at the time, hers was the first Russian family in the borough in 20 years). Eventually, Spektor and her family became part of a community that balanced her Russian Jewish roots with her new homes culture. She continued to practice piano anywhere she could, including at her synagogue, until her family got a piano of their own. Spektor further developed her classical piano training by attending the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory. During her studies, she was exposed to lues and jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, for the first time; these sounds made such an impact on Spektor that they became a big part of her self-released 2001 debut album, 11:11. At the same time, she was also playing gigs anywhere she could in the city, in venues ranging from basements to parties to comedy clubs. With her frequent performances and another self-released album, 2002s Songs, Spektor developed a following that included Alan Bezozi, They Might Be Giants drummer; he introduced Spektor to the Strokes producer, Gordon Raphael. Raphael and Bezozi worked with Spektor on her third album, Soviet Kitsch, in New York and London (where she collaborated with the band Kill Kenada). Soviet Kitsch was initially self-released like her other work, but it eventually found a wider release with Sire Records. Tours with the Strokes, Kings of Leon, Mates of State, and the Moldy Peaches Kimya Dawson further raised Spektors profile. Tours of the U.K. and the success of Us as a single there led to the release of the CD/DVD retrospective Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories early in 2006; that summer, Begin to Hope, her first album of original material for Sire, arrived.
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Regina Spektor?s last album, 2004?s Soviet Kitsch, garnered praise from Time, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and many others. Bu...
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Begin to HopeSource: Amazon
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Regina Spektor?s last album, 2004?s Soviet Kitsch, garnered praise from Time, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and many others. Bu...
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Mary Ann Meets The Gravediggers And Other Short Stories is a 2-disc CD/DVD (PAL/Region 0) album set comprising a 12-track CD album compiling the highl...
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Part Two of Two. Seven inch single taken from her highly anticipated 2006 album, Begin To Hope. Features On The Radio (Remix) backed with 20 Years Of ...
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First CD single taken from her highly anticipated 2006 album, Begin To Hope. Features On The Radio coupled with D?sseldorf. WB.
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