Regina Spektor

Her first nation-wide tour was with The Strokes as an opening act on the 2003-2004 'Room on Fire' tour.

Recurring themes in her music include love, death, religion, city life, and certain key phrases.

Regina usually sings in English, but she also includes verses of Latin, French, Russian, and other languages into her songs.

She uses a strong New York accent on some words, to show her love of New York culture.

Regina works hard to ensure that each of her songs has its own musical style, instead of developing a distinctive style for all of her music.

Her songs are influenced by folk, Jewish, Russian, hip hop, jazz, and classical music.

Regina said that she has created over 700 songs.

Regina stated that she was only interested in classical music, but she later became interested in rock, hip hop, and punk.

Her piano studies led her parents so that they considered not leaving the Soviet Union, but because of the seriousness of ethnic and political discrimination against Jews, they decided to emigrate.

When Regina emigrated from the Soviet Union, she unfortunately had to leave her piano behind.

Regina was born to a musical Jewish family.

She is an only child.

She is right-handed.

Her songs have been played on hit television shows such as Grey's Anatomy and CSI:NY.

On SIRIUS Radio's Left of Center channel, her song "Fidelity" was voted by listeners as the #1 song of 2006.

Regina and her family left the Soviet Union in 1989 during the period of Perestroika, when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate.

She is not concerned with commercial success.

She started playing the piano at age six.

She is of Russian and Jewish heritage.

She had two sold-out shows at NYC City Hall.

Her 2006 video "Fidelity" was watched over 200,000 times on the website YouTube.

She sings, writes her own music, produces, and plays the piano.

She attended the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory.

She attended Yeshiva Middle School. She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey, but she moved to Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.

She has lived in the Soviet Union, Austria, Italy, and New York.

She was #33 on Blender magazine's top 100 of 2006.

She performed in the West London Synagogue, in February 2007.

Regina was named #5 on Vh1's Top Artists Charts in 2006.

She began writing her first a songs around the age of 16, and wrote her first songs for voice and piano when she was 18.

She studied classical piano from the age of six on a Petrof piano, that was given to her mother by her grandfather.

Her piano teacher, Sonia Vargas, was a professor at the Manhattan School of Music. She studied with Vargas until she was 17 years old.

Her father was a photographer and also a violinist. Her mother was a music professor in a Russian college of music, and she now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.

She was born in Moscow, Russia. Her family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when she was nine.

Regina plays the guitar and piano.

Albums:

11:11 in 2001
Songs in 2002
Soviet Kitsch in 2004
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories in 2006
Begin to Hope in 2006
Far in 2009

Regina's most popular song to date is Fidelity.