Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1980-02-18
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life
- Regina Spektor - Far
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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
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
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- 2,723,345
- Total plays
- 124,283,281
Tags
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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
· 2008 · cited 18,405x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- 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 9,374x
- GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables
· 2011 · cited 8,889x
- GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence
· 2011 · cited 6,812x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 18 February 1980
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Regina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- jazz fusion
- Instrument
- voice
Article
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Russian: Регинa Ильинична Спектор, pronounced [rʲɪˈɡʲinə ˈspʲɛktər]; born February 18, 1980) 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 the East Village, Spektor signed with Sire Records in 2004, resulting in greater mainstream recognition. After giving her third album, Soviet Kitsch, a major label re-release, Sire released Spektor's fourth album, Begin to Hope, which achieved a Gold certification by the RIAA. Her following two albums, Far and What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, each debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200.
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