Artist: Regina Spektor
Genre(s):
Rock
Vocal
Pop
Discography:
Valentines Day (Live At Tonic)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 22
Begin To Hope
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
11.11
Year: 2001
Tracks: 2
A veteran of New York's anti-folk scene, Regina Spektor makes upbeat, highly eclecticist, but constantly personal medicine. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine-spot, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Horse opera come out and rock confect as a prince Edward Young child and besides learned to play piano. She and her kin group stirred from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture (at the time, hers was the setoff Russian clan in the borough in 20 long time). Eventually, Spektor and her kindred became part of a community that balanced her Russian Jewish roots with her modern home's culture. She continued to exercise piano anywhere she could, including at her temple, until her crime syndicate got a pianissimo of their have. Spektor farther developed her serious music pianissimo training by attendance the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory. During her studies, she was exposed to megrims and jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, for the kickoff sentence; these sounds made such an wallop on Spektor that they became a bad share of her self-released 2001 debut record album, 11:11. At the sami time, she was excessively playing gigs anywhere she could in the metropolis, in venues ranging from basements to parties to drollery clubs. With her frequent performances and or so other self-released album, 2002's Songs, Spektor developed a next that included Alan Bezozi, They Might Be Giants' drummer; he introduced Spektor to the Strokes' manufacturing business, Gordon Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio and Bezozi worked with Spektor on her third base album, Soviet Kitsch, in New York and Jack London (where she collaborated with the band Kill Kenada). Soviet Kitsch was initially self-released like her other ferment, just it eventually plunge a wider handout with Sire Records. Tours with the Strokes, Kings of Leon, Match of United States Department of State, and the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson further raised Spektor's profile. Tours of the U.K. and the success of "Us" as a single there light-emitting rectifying tube to the release of the CD/DVD retrospective Blessed Virgin Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories betimes in 2006; that summertime, Begin to Hope, her number one base album of master material for Father, arrived.
