Regina Spektor
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 18, 1980
- Place of birth
- Moscow, Russia
Biography
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.
Movies with Regina Spektor
- Echo in the Canyon 2019 · ★ 6.8
- Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song 2022 · ★ 7.4
- Other Music 2019 · ★ 6.7
- Adam Green's Aladdin 2016 · ★ 6.8
- Regina Spektor: Live in London 2010 · ★ 7.1
- Hava Nagila: The Movie 2012 · ★ 7.0
- Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage 2017 · ★ 8.0
- Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories 2006
- The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway 2006
- The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch 2004