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Regina Spektor
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,…
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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 brother, Boruch (also known as Bear). Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. She grew up listening to classical music and famous Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to rock and roll bands such as the Beatles, Queen, and the Moody Blues.
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2022
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Movie Self
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2019
Bombshell
Movie Songs
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2019
Modern Love
TV show Songs
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2019
Echo in the Canyon
Movie Self
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2019
Other Music
Movie Self
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2018
The Romanoffs
TV show Special Vocal Performance
- 2017
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2016
Adam Green's Aladdin
Movie Concerned Townsperson
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2012
Hava Nagila: The Movie
Movie Self
- 2010
- 2006
- 2006
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2005
The Colbert Report
TV show
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2004
The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
Movie Herself
More credits
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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2003
VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
TV show
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2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV show Self
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1997
The View
TV show Self - Guest
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1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV show
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1975
Saturday Night Live
TV show Self - Musical Guest
