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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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Regina

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Moscow

Occupation

film director

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

music composing

Genre

jazz fusion

Instrument

voice

Record label

Sire

Official website

www.reginaspektor.com

Image

Regina Spektor 2009-07-02 001.jpg

Work location

New York City

Voice type

mezzo-soprano

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