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They tell that of small Regina dreaming of being a classic soloist of piano and that the first years of his new life in America, having had to leave his instrument in her distant country of birth, the girl was spending them practising scales in any flat surface, already out the board of a table or the sill of a window.

It established itself in the Bronx, from where she began to extract of his oriental suitcase, classic scores and melodies academicistas , it had changed nevertheless something into her, something new, it was already not the docile and meek little girl used to being supported inside strict teaching of the learned music. They had breathed new airs and received, new sensations, and she dress new attitudes.

At the age of 16, in a trip to Israel, she began to compose his first melodies, which was a surprise even for her, because up to this moment she only was thinking of interpreting in his piano the music that others had composed.

Everything had changed and she, of course also, hence the new melodies began to arise:, piano and electronics, this age the natural alliance that Regina discovered, now the rhythms props of the blues and of the country music were a part of his intimate undivided assets and from this derive a strong new and distinctive and sensual pop. She says to have discovered Radiohead at the age of twenty-one or to Tom Waits to the twenty-two thanks to tapes that his friends were recording to her.

Regina Spektor is reborn across a new musical life and takes the flag of the antifolk, gathering the roots of the folk, but associating them with more fresh musical resources as the punk or the electronics.

Regina Spektor is a singer and American pianist of origin Russian - Jew who was born on February 18, 1980 in the bosom of a Jewish family in Moscow. there in the same capital of the powerful Soviet empire of that time, where as every girl with some artistic skills, deposited the conservatory where it was directed under the strict lineaments of the musical Russian academy, nevertheless, already then, between compases, solfeos and armonías, something different happened out of the high walls, an increasing murmur that was indicating that something was collapsing and that it was indicating that his world, as he knew it, would change, in any moment of a brutal and inexorable way.

Spektor comes from a very musical family: His father, Ilya Spektor, photographer, was also a keen violinist, while his mother is a teacher of music, and he taught in a school of music in Russia, and at present it does it in a public basic school in Mount Vernon, locality located in the same city in which they reside.. In Russia, Spektor was already touching the piano since she was six years old, and was listening to bands of rock, like The Beatles and Queen.
The family left Russia in 1989, during the Perestroika, when it was allowed the Russian citizens to emigrate from the country with 9 years, she and his family leave Russia and fix his residence in the United States. At present lives in the Bronx, New York.

After finishing his studies of music, in 2001, she embarked in extracting his first production.

Across The Strokes (band of which, in addition to friend, it was a feminine voice for Modern Girls And Old Fashion Men, song that he interpreted to duo with Julian Casablancas) and of Alan Bezozi (acquaintance as musician of study), the first two discs of Spektor-11:11 and Songs (with a more commercial air but without losing her style, where there always stand out the histories that it counts in his songs), recorded of form home-loving and autoedited by herself, they came across of the producer Gordon Raphael. The man felt bewitched by the expressive capacity and the strange records of his voice, and proposed to her to record a few songs in his study. Together (Bezozi, Raphael and the proper Spektor), produced Soviet Kitsch 2004. This was the decisive step towards the increasing popularity which today he enjoys.


 In the last years it has happened of touching before dedicated but small hearings in places as Sidewalk Café (one of the neuralgic centers of the action anti-folk of Manhattan) and other gambling dens similar of Lower East Side to fill places with capacities superior to thousand persons as Irving Plaza of New York or Shepherd's Bush Empire of London. Her disc Begin to Hope became nº1 of the U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers. In summer of 2009 she publishes her fourth album of study, Far.

 Regina Spektor is counted as one of the most special voices arisen in contemporary pop. When one wants to speak about her one resorts to names as those of one more Laura Niro pop, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Édith Piaf and up to Billie Holiday or Björk. Of all it can have a little Regina, but this is one of these cases in which the references are not enough.

 After editing in 2003 Soviet Kitsch of the hand of Shoplifter in the United Kingdom and Sire in the United States — her first commercial — album Regina Spektor has given a new step in her career towards the normalization of a sound that till now had always been based on the stamps of her voice, her versatile skill to the piano, and, occasionally, a ramrod with the one that was striking the chair where it was sitting down to touching the piano.

 Regina Spektor was late two months in recording Begin To Hope (Warner, 2006), very much more time the one than had never taken till now to record one of his discs: Songs was recorded in 1 alone day, and Soviet Kistch in 10, in a professional study with the help of the producer David Kahne. In 2008 it appeared in the sound-track of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian with the song The Call. Also  recorded "Far", who saw the light on June 22, 2009 and the same year took part in the sound-track of the movie (500) Days of Summer with the songs " Us " and " Hero ", being one of these included in the beginning of the movie and the trailer of this one herself.

On having listened to her, you will discover under his apparent varnish of traditional melodies linked to the poetry of the folk other more worrying and novel impulses.

Regina Spektor manages to capitalize much of this in her second and successful album “ Begin to Hope ”, acclaimed as the best of the year.

 In this one she stand out the soft and melancholy rhythms of the folk, accompanied of vibrant cadenza of the blues along with surprising electronic bases that give a new background, so that her lyricists demonstrate with histories loaded with sudden tragedies, unfulfilled nostalgias or simple events of one day as any other.

 This way Regina Spektor of girl is turning woman into a new voice, so powerful as original, key to understand the today music, and this way already it has been understood by the very same The Strokes, who did not want to begin his last tour without earlier confirming that it would be the Spektor who would open each of his show.


 She receives the success, wherefrom he comes and remembers that his roots come both from Tchaikovsky and from Velvet Underground including and as not, to The Beatles, “ I only want to do folk with style ”, he has declared recently, and that, that so easy it turns out to be to say it but so difficult achieve it, she has reached it, with big height.

 Today more under of the EE.UU has transformed into an important star of the scene a little what is reaffirmed in his fourth badge so-called “ Begin to hope ” (2006) with beat's miscellany sticky and electronic, more brief wise moves of jazz, which one adapts to Regina's soft and charming voice.
 Discografía

Albums

* 1999: Demos
* 2001: 11:11
* 2002: Songs
* 2004: Soviet Kitsch
* 2006: Begin to Hope
* 2009: Far

EP's

* 2005: Live at Bull Moose EP (Sire)
* 2007: Live in California 2006 EP (Sire)


Compilacions

* 2000: Public Domain (Purchase Records)
* 2006: Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories (Transgressive)
* 2007: Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
* 2009: (500) Days of Summer

Also she sang :

* 2004: "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men" - B-side de Reptilia de The Strokes (RCA)
* 2007: "Hell No" - Soundtrack de Dan In Real Life
* 2008: "You Don't Know Me" - del álbum Way to Normal de Ben Folds (Sony)