Artist
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor is a folk artist from New York City, USA. 40 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Folk · New York City, USA · Best folk albums
- 40
- Releases
- 2001–2024
- Active years
Artist
Regina Spektor is a folk artist from New York City, USA. 40 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Folk · New York City, USA · Best folk albums
Most popular
Begin to Hope
2006
What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
2012
Soviet Kitsch
2004
Live in London
2010
Remember Us to Life
2016
Home, Before and After
2022
Far
2009
11:11
2001
Songs (2024 Remaster)
2024
Bombshell (Original Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
Kubo and the Two Strings (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2016
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories by Regina Spektor
2006
Songs
2002
Loveology
Single · 2022
Love Affair
Single · 2022
Back of a Truck (Papa's Bootlegs, Live in New York)
Single · 2022
Up the Mountain
Single · 2022
Becoming All Alone
Single · 2022
One Little Soldier (From "Bombshell" the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Single · 2019
Walking Away (Music from the Original Amazon Series "Modern Love")
Single · 2019
You've Got Time (chamber version)
Single · 2019
Birdsong
Single · 2018
Black and White
Single · 2016
Bleeding Heart
Single · 2016
Small Bill$
Single · 2016
Older and Taller
Single · 2016
The Call
Single · 2013
You've Got Time
Single · 2013
Don't Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas) (Russian Version)
Single · 2012
No Surprises
Single · 2010
Eet (UK)
Single · 2009
Live from Soho EP
EP · 2009
Fidelity
Single · 2007
Samson
Single · 2007
Live at Lollapalooza 2007: Regina Spektor (DMD EP)
EP · 2007
Live in California 2006 EP
EP · 2007
My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) (Live)
Single · 2007
Better (Piano and Voice)
Single · 2007
On the Radio
Single · 2006
Live at Bull Moose EP
EP · 2005
Spektor was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, in 1980 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. She has a brother Boruch (Bear), who was featured in track 7, "* * *", or "Whisper", of her 2004 album, Soviet Kitsch. Growing up in Moscow, Regina 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. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika, when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving the USSR, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to the ethnic and…