Regina Spektor

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

• Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song — Self2022
• Echo in the Canyon — Self2019
• Other Music — Self2019
• The Romanoffs — Special Vocal Performance2018
• Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage2017
• Adam Green's Aladdin — Concerned Townsperson2016
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Musical Guest2015
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self2014
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Musical Guest2014
• Hava Nagila: The Movie — Self2012

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

United States

Active from

1980

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,723,345

Total plays

124,283,281

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian–born American singer, songwriter and pianist. 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 2004 and began achieving greater mainstream recognition. After giving her third album a major label re-release, Sire released Spektor's fourth album, Begin to Hope, which achieved a Gold cer

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

   · 2008 · cited 19,259x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,753x

3. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,640x

4. GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

   · 2011 · cited 9,175x

5. GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence

   · 2011 · cited 6,997x

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Quotes

• “He was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer And mothers prefer doctors And lawyers Yet despite this imperfection He was clean-looking and respectable-looking And you'll never find a mother Who doesn't appreciate a natural man”
• “Pavlov's Daughter, woke up in the morning, hear the bell ring, and something deep inside of her, makes her want to salivate, so she lays there drooling on her pillow...”
• “Thirty-two's still a goddamn number Thirty-two's still counts Gonna make it count”
• “Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.”
• “Water, salt, cucumbers, garlic and”
• “Love is the answer to a question I have forgotten, but I know I've been asked. And the answer has got to be love.”

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Key facts

Born

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor , ( 1980-02-18 ) February 18, 1980 (age 46) , Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union

Citizenship

United States (arrived 1989)

Occupations

Singer songwriter

Years active

2001–present

Spouse

Jack Dishel ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ) ​

Genres

Anti-folk indie-pop alternative rock

Instruments

Vocals piano guitar percussion

Label

Sire / Warner

Website

www .reginaspektor .com

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