Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor was born on February 18th, 1980, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical family. Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist. Her mother was a music professor in a Russian conservatory and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.

Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practicing on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia, but they finally decided to emigrate, for religious and political reasons.

Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the family settled in the Bronx, New York, where Spektor graduated from a middle school yeshiva. She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey on a scholarship for two years, but, feeling out of place, eventually transferred to a secular public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school career.

Spektor has stated that she was originally interested only in classical music, but that she later became interested in hip hop, rock, and punk as well.

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Fidelity	6,690
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Samson	5,650
–	3	Add this track to your playlist On the Radio	4,859
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Better	3,939
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Hotel Song	3,587
–	6	Add this track to your playlist That Time	2,749
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Us	2,536
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Field Below	2,496
1	9	Add this track to your playlist The Call	2,451
1	10	Add this track to your playlist Summer in the City	2,323
–	11	Add this track to your playlist 20 Years Of Snow	2,126
1	12	Add this track to your playlist Lady	2,096
1	13	Add this track to your playlist Edit	2,064
–	14	Add this track to your playlist Apres Moi	1,808
1	15	Add this track to your playlist Poor Little Rich Boy	1,728
1	16	Add this track to your playlist Carbon Monoxide	1,725
–	17	Add this track to your playlist Ode to Divorce	1,514
–	18	Add this track to your playlist Somedays	1,486
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Chemo Limo	1,412
–	20	Add this track to your playlist The Flowers	1,364

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Fidelity	91,538
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Samson	75,816
–	3	Add this track to your playlist On the Radio	68,228
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Better	59,015
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Hotel Song	51,717
–	6	Add this track to your playlist That Time	43,167
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Field Below	40,882
1	8	Add this track to your playlist Summer in the City	37,717
1	9	Add this track to your playlist Us	37,276
–	10	Add this track to your playlist 20 Years Of Snow	35,953
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Lady	34,575
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Edit	34,440
–	13	Add this track to your playlist Poor Little Rich Boy	27,030
–	14	Add this track to your playlist Ode to Divorce	24,439
1	15	Add this track to your playlist Somedays	23,372
1	16	Add this track to your playlist Apres Moi	23,217
–	17	Add this track to your playlist Chemo Limo	22,734
–	18	Add this track to your playlist The Flowers	22,389
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Carbon Monoxide	22,358
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Sailor Song	21,909
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Love Affair	19,085
–	22	Add this track to your playlist Ghost of Corporate Future	17,551
–	23	Add this track to your playlist Après Moi	16,624
–	24	Add this track to your playlist Oedipus	16,137
–	25	Add this track to your playlist Consequence of Sounds	16,055
–	26	Add this track to your playlist Your Honor	15,876
–	27	Add this track to your playlist Prisoners	13,274
–	28	Add this track to your playlist Lacrimosa	12,979
–	29	Add this track to your playlist Ne me Quitte Pas	10,003
–	30	Add this track to your playlist Pavlov's Daughter	9,954
–	31	Add this track to your playlist Reading Time With Pickle	9,763
–	32	Add this track to your playlist Daniel Cowman	9,710
–	33	Add this track to your playlist Braille	9,232
1	34	Add this track to your playlist Real Love	9,200
1	35	Add this track to your playlist Rejazz	8,844
2	36	Add this track to your playlist Buildings	8,491
1	37	Add this track to your playlist Aching to Pupate	8,461
1	38	Add this track to your playlist Lounge	8,377
–	39	Add this track to your playlist Back of a Truck	8,303
–	40	Add this track to your playlist Whisper	8,190
–	41	Add this track to your playlist Lulliby	7,878
–	42	Add this track to your playlist Flyin	7,823
2	43	Add this track to your playlist Wasteside	7,098
1	44	Add this track to your playlist Music Box	7,092
1	45	Add this track to your playlist I Want to Sing	6,992
2	46	Add this track to your playlist the ghost of corporate future	6,925
–	47	Add this track to your playlist Baobabs	6,468
–	48	Add this track to your playlist Sunshine	6,366
–	49	Add this track to your playlist Mary Ann	5,915
1	50	Add this track to your playlist musicbox	5,446