Regina Spektor

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Ретинa ), born in 1980 in Moscow, is a Russian songwriter and pianist whose music is associated with the New York anti-folk movement. Born of a father photographer, amateur violinist, and a mother music teacher, it is of course that Regina will head towards the career that we know him today, she learns the piano on a vertical Petrof inherited from her grandfather and grows up in a classical musical universe, but not only because her father will not fail to show her The Beatles, Queen or The Moody Blues. In 1989, the Spektor family left Russia in part because of the discrimination faced by the Jews, after a visit to Italy and Austria, they eventually elected home to the United States in the Bronx. In New York Regina learned piano at the Manhattan School of Music, until she was 17 years old (his piano could not travel to the United States, so she practiced the one found in the cellar of her synagogue), initially rather interested in classical music, she soon became more passionate about the Punk and Hip Hop cultures around him. She then continued by completing the programme of the State University of New York in Purchase in 3 years (while this is planned in 4), which she graduated from in 2001, followed a semester of study in Tottenham. Gradually she gained credibility with the New York anti-folk scene, largely thanks to numerous duos with drummer Anders Griffen, and collaborations with musicians like The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, performances during which she sold her first two fully self-produced albums ( 11:11 in 2001 and then Songs in 2002). It was only in 2004 that she was spotted by Warner Bros who signed her on Sire Records , a label that reissued and distributed her third album Soviet Kitsch, originally released without label the previous year, in 2004. Two years later appeared Begin To Hope , more pop-oriented opus , it will take three more years for Far , his fifth album to be released in 2009, we are then in 2011 Regina marries Jack Dishel former guitarist of The Moldy Peaches and currently at the head of his one-man band Only Son , it is a year later in May 2012 that his latest album, What We Saw from the Cheap Seats , will be released , composed almost entirely of old songs from his remastered or reworked self-produced albums, the only unreleased title being Jessica .
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