Regina Spektor

Known for ActingBorn 1980-02-18 (age 46)Moscow, Russia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

Modern Love

VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Regina Spektor: Live in London

Hava Nagila: The Movie

Bombshell

The Colbert Report

Adam Green's Aladdin

Echo in the Canyon

Other Music

Saturday Night Live

The Romanoffs

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The View

Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway

The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch