After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes , particularly the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village , Spektor signed with Sire Records in and began achieving greater mainstream recognition. 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. 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. The family left the Soviet Union for the Bronx in , when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika , when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind. Since the family had been unable to bring their piano from Moscow, Spektor practiced on tabletops and other hard surfaces until she found a piano on which to play in the basement of her synagogue.
From classical roots to wide-ranging sweeps of punk, beatboxing, jazz and pop.
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Alas, after searching over the years of posts I see nothing of the sort. It is definitely time for a Regina Spektor Top 10 Songs feature, past time actually. I would later hear it in the film Days of Summer. The Songs on that Album hit memories and feelings of love, loss, and change.
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Born in Moscow, Spektor emigrated to the United States at age nine. The rest of her formative years were spent absorbing all of the culture that residing in the Bronx had to offer. Over the course of her career, Spektor has evolved from her classical roots to wide-ranging sweeps of experimentation throughout punk, beatboxing, jazz and pop. They can be triggered by something as little as spying a book you read in English class or as big as catching up with an old friend. The lyrics sound a little like something out of an Allen Ginsberg poem. This song is her most creative attempt to do just that, having fun and venturing away from her roots without worrying what her fans and critics alike will say. Meanwhile, it effortlessly evokes the sense of futility one feels in the face of a withering relationship and their nostalgia for what once was. Near the end of the final verse, just when Spektor has you feeling ready to repent for your blasphemy, she turns the tables on the listener, reminding us that, just maybe, God is in on the joke. Maybe it was her way of melding classical and indie elements that helped the track gain traction, but perhaps the universal fear of rejection encapsulated in her lyrics was even more vital. Simply put, this is Spektor at her best.
The following is a list of songs written or performed by anti folk artist Regina Spektor. Two tracks from Songs were later re-recorded and re-released by Spektor. The first, "Samson", also appeared in Begin to Hope. Unlike the version, which featured only Spektor and the piano, the one also includes a drum machine, horns and brass instruments. A third version of "Ne Me Quitte Pas" was also released online, keeping the new, multi-instrument production, but replacing the English verses with Russian lyrics. Songs on this list feature Regina Spektor working with other artists. Most of them were not released by her. Spektor has also recorded spoken introductions for the songs in The Crimea 's album Secrets of the Witching Hour , as well as a guest narration for Quodia's album The Arrow. Six songs from this collection came from a cassette tape that was auctioned online in
