Regina Spektor is a russian-american artist, born in Moscow, in February 18th 1980.
Both her parents are musicians - her father is a photographer but also a amateur violinist, and her mother a music teacher.
She grew up listening The Beatles, Queen and The Moody Blues, thanks to her father and the albums they brought from Russia. They left the country when Regina was nine years old, during the Perestroika period, when it was fine to Jew citizens to leave the country. On that time, Regina had to leave her piano behind.
Passing through Austria, Italy and finally USA, Regina made two years on Frisch School and another two on Fair Lawn High School, where she finished her studies.
On the beginning, Regina only cared for classical music, but than started to interest in Hip-hop, rock and punk.
Starting her career has a composition, Regina studied classical piano with Sonia Vargas, in New York. She was declared intellectually gifted.
Regina always made her music at home, but since a visit to Nesiya Institute, in Israel during her adolescence, when she realized her aptitude to write music. After that same trip, she saw the work of Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco and other song-writers and realized it was possible to make her own music. She wrote her first musics when she was sixteen years old, and her first songs (music + vocals) when she was eighteen.
She accomplished the Studio Composition program of four years from the Musical Conservatory in Purchase College, in three years, receiving honors in 2001. On the same time, she worked in Wisconsin and studied in Tottenham, England for a semester.
Time by time, she was starting to get recognized through her performances, on the city of New York, East Village's Sidewalk Cafe, but also in Living Room, Tonic, Fez, Knitting Factory and CB Gallery. She sold cd's of those performances: 11:11 (2001) and Songs (2002).
She already toured with The Strokes, Kings of Leon and Keane.
This song I choose, "US", appears on a movie I recently saw named "(500) Days of Summer" and it's so gorgeous, so pure that I needed to share with you.
"They made a statue of us
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