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| "New album "Begin to Hope" in stores now!"Influencesso much classical music, Bach, Mozart, Chopin and countless many more, The Beatles, Queen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Bjork, Radiohead, Nirvana, Patti Smith, Billie Holiday, Luis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Vladimir Vysotsky, Eminem, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Edith Piaf, so much more rock, hip hop, jazz, punk and possibly you.Sounds LikeSounds like a young human trying to make some music...Not from Regina: Get The Vote Out For Regina!SOVIET KITSCH was released in stores March 1st 2005 by Sire Records.My other two records were self released; "11:11" (ELEVEN ELEVEN) was made in college, and is all sold out, but available on iTunes.You can check it all out for free on a player on my website, though...SOVIET KITSCH is in stores now...Get this video and more at MySpace.Copy and paste the code below!Get this video and more at MySpace.Embed this video into your profile!Copy and paste the code below!Get this video and more at MySpace.My new album BEGIN TO HOPE is now in stores, on iTunes, and at Amazon:
The special edition of BEGIN TO HOPE is available here."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"My wish for this new year:Bring Regina Spektor and her beautiful songs to Holland,please!Glad to hear youre feeling better than before and coping with your virus as best as possible.Love from Wilmington, NC.Thank you (and the fine people at itunes) for the free song (My Dear Acquaintance) it is beautiful.Hope that you get to feeling better.Your music is so beautiful; every line of every song expresses exactly how i feel.Oh, and also "Music box" I love you!!Your voice is angelic...Regina and thanks for the add.Keep it up, I look forward to hearing whatever comes from you in the future.Thanks for the great sounds!!Use this weeks for rest and got well soon.When you finish your tour in north america please think in start someday a tour or just visit cities in Latin America, I'm from Chile and I really want to see you in live!You always makes me smile.Do you feel like there is never time to be sick...Take care, get rest (in a mother's tone, of course...Can't wait til you can make it to Norfolk.Whatever it takes to make sure Regina's Voice stays perfect...Hope you can come to Mexico, anytime, just come in to my world...What can I say that hasn't already been said, but, my world needs you and the music you create in it.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.New York City's East Village.She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union.Unfortunately, Regina had to leave her piano behind.She then attended high school for two years on a scholarship at the Frisch School, a yeshiva in Paramus, New Jersey, but, feeling out of place, eventually transferred to a secular public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school career.Spektor has stated that she was originally interested only in classical music, but that she later became interested in hip hop, rock and punk as well.Although the family had been unable to bring their piano with them from Russia, Spektor found a piano on which to practice in the basement of her synagogue, also utilizing tabletops and other hard surfaces for this purpose.Around this time, she also worked briefly at a butterfly farm in Luck, Wisconsin, and studied in Tottenham, England for one semester.New York City, most importantly at the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe, but also at the Living Room, Tonic, Fez, the Knitting Factory, and CB's Gallery.Regina Spektor in concert, April 2007.She has also stated that she never aspired to write songs herself, but songs seem to just flow to her.Spektor has said that she works hard to ensure that each of her songs has its own musical style, rather than trying to develop a distinctive style for her music as a whole.She also uses a strong New York accent on some words, which she has said is due to her love of New York and its culture.Moi", Samson and Delilah in "Samson", and Oedipus the King in "Oedipus".Spektor's use of satire is evident in "Wasteside," which refers to the classic satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov The Twelve Chairs, and describes the town in which people are born, get their haircut, and then are sent to the cemetery.However, Spektor's more recent albums, particularly Begin to Hope, have put more emphasis into song production and have relied more on traditional pop and rock instruments.In June 2005 Spektor was the opening act for the English piano rock band Keane on their North American tour, during which she performed at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2005.Since January 2005, Spektor has performed on a bright red Baldwin baby grand piano.Heritage Festival at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.In 2006, Spektor embarked on a headlining tour of the United States and Europe, selling out numerous clubs and theaters.On Saturday April 28, 2007 she appeared at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.On June 16, 2007, she performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival and later performed at the 2007 Lollapalooza on August 4, 2007 and Virgin Festival on August 5, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland.She performed acoustic at the Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheatre in October on the 27th and 28th.According to the statement given to the audience Spektor was fine but doctors said she could not perform that night.It was later reported that the cause of the collapse was an inner ear infecton which caused intense vertigo.However, it has been rescheduled once again, this time after the new year, due to Spektor's recurring illness.Media coverage
Since 2005, Spektor's music has been used in various television programs and commercials.The advert features a clip from a documentary on skateboarder Danny Way.In the summer of 2006, a clip from "Us" was used for the teaser website for Microsoft's Zune project at ComingZune."On the Radio" was used in an episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy."Field Below" was used in a 2006 episode titled "The Last Word" of CBS's Criminal Minds.Her song "Music Box" is currently being used in a commercial for JC Penney.Spektor also sang the title song "Little Boxes" of Showtime's television series Weeds in the episode "Mile Deep and a Foot Wide" (2006) and her "Ghost of Corporate Future" was used both at the beginning and end of the episode.On January 21, 2007, she was featured on CBS News Sunday Morning.Triple J, where it eventually became a feature album.Prior to Begin To Hope, Regina Spektor had only a small following in Australia in comparison to the US and Europe.Blender magazine's top 100 of 2006 and was also listed as one of the "Hottest Women of...Regina Spektor performing in the West London Synagogue, February 2007.In 2007, Spektor appeared in the British edition of Vogue magazine.Spektor's "Music Box" for a television advertisement
On October 1, 2007 Spektor's new video for "Better" (Radio Recut) was released on VH1 TV channel and YouTube."Fidelity" was used in the 27 Dresses movie trailer, which was released on October 3, 2007.Some of Spektor's songs are regular plays on various music television channels, in particular VH1.Discography
Spektor's first two albums were released exclusively in the United States; Soviet Kitsch and Begin to Hope were released worldwide.The compilation Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories, containing songs from Spektor's first three albums, was put together for the UK market.Artist Profile: Regina Spektor.Regina Spektor: A Triumph That Began With Hope."From Russia with Love".Regina Spektor: The Red Princess.Regina Spektor's Got New "Hope".Regina Spektor's Boundless Talent.Making Stuff Up: An Interview With Regina Spektor.Spectral Musings: Six lines that will make you fall in love with Regina Spektor.Regina Spektor in Concert.Making Fiona Apple seem normal..Stories in Song: Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope."Spectacular Spektor", by Susan Visakowitz (from Billboard.Regina Spektor in a Piano Shop.The external links in this article may not comply with Wikipedia's content policies or guidelines.Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links.Regina Spektor's official web site by Sonya Koshuta
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"Regina Spektor: The Red Princess" by Shane Roeschlein (from themusicedge.March 2005)
"Learning to Love Regina Spektor: A Review of Begin to Hope" by Meghan Purvis (from lostwriters.June 2006)
"Regina Spektor" interview by Noel Murray (from The A.Madison, 4 September 2006)
"Spektor Brings Her Bronx Tale Home", by Rebecca Thomas (from The New York Sun, 26 September 2006)
"Regina Spektor in Concert", (from National Public Radio, 3 October 2006)
"The girl who told stories", by Michael Dwyer (from The Age, Australia, 8 December 2006)
"Regina Spektor interview" by Rob Townsend (from bobbysix.December 2006)
"Regina Spektor's Boundless Talent", (from CBS News, 21 January 2007)
"Regina Spektor Live in London", (from Abstractboy.February 2007)
"Regina Spektor: A woman of substance", by Katy Guest (from The Independent, 1 March 2007)
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15,262,957 plays scrobbled on Last.Regina Spektor was born on February 18th, 1980, in Moscow, Russia, to a musical family.Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist, and her mother was a music professor in a Russian conservatory; she now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union.The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate.She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey on a scholarship for two years, but, feeling out of place, eventually transferred to a secular public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school career.Still Have Nothing Better To Do With My Time....She makes me wish we had souls.Go check out tons of her music there.And they can listen all they want, they don't have the unreleased greatness!What is the meaning behind the album title 11:11?She's calming, soothing, tranquilizing.The new picture is better.With all the vocal quirks and beats.Web Site Support
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1.By clicking any links above, the iTunes application will launch or you will be prompted to download iTunes if you don't have it.TM: So are your parents both musicians?TM: What role did music play for you growing up?TM: Any favorite composers?I've always loved Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev and Mozart and Bach.Then I discovered Chopin.Like I just got into metal and it's actually really cool...TM: So is there a possibility of hearing some metal influence in your music?It's just like with everything.Like when I discovered jazz or gospel or hip hop or country.Johnny Cash or Marilyn Manson?Or Mozart or Joni Mitchell or Dylan or Nirvana.They're comfortable with it.America tries to stifle melancholy.TM: Do you have a typical songwriting process?And if I'm not home for a long time I'm like "OK, I'm so inspired.TM: That's a great analogy!Where do you draw inspiration for them?RS: Observing people all around.You know, mannerisms, accents, complexes...All around us there are plays going on, movies, actors, characters, it's beautiful.TM: Are there any artists out there that you'd love to collaborate with?You hear them and you say "wow, it would be cool to work with them."Strokes, and that was really amazing...And I also have two musicians from Central Park who played on it.One is Ralphie Williams and he's a saxophone player...It's this stringed Chinese instrument.It's kinda got a sound like (*she emulates the erhu with her voice*).Well, he had a really complicated name, but he just said to call him Joe.TM: So what excites you the most about the new album, Begin to Hope?I've never made anything that I liked listening to.I'm really grateful to Gordon (Raphael, the producer) that he talked me into keeping it.For some reason in my mind, when we finished it, I felt "It's too long.TM: Well you're nuts cause that's a great song!There's this scene where this person is destroying a room because they're convinced that it's bugged.TM: You're your worst critic.Like for this new record, I had probably done 70 takes of "Samson.".But it ended up being exactly the take that I wanted.And I was right, my instinct was right.It takes a balance between trying to trust other people and knowing that sometimes you're going to want to erase the best track on the record, but also knowing that just because everybody says "this is great" and your instinct says "no, this is not the one" that you can do it because it is your record.They're trying to turn you mainstream!"TM: Do you ever get stage fright?So you just get stomach pains and nervous sweats.TM: Does this happen before every gig?RS: You know sometimes I will not even know that I'm playing a show and I'll wake up with a stomach ache and I think "why do I feel so crappy?"TM: So do you like recording and writing more than playing live?I'd say Charlie Chaplin.Mozart and somebody who'd be really witty (pauses to think)...RS: My mom was a conservatory professor of musicology and theory and she played piano.He played in an orchestra but he wasn't a professional musician.And so, I guess (music) was my first babysitter...Then I discovered Chopin.I've never really listened to that's so amazing.TM: So is there a possibility of hearing some metal influence in your music?It's just like with everything.There's so much great stuff.You sit there in the morning and you're like "Oh God, what am I going to listen to?"Johnny Cash or Marilyn Manson?RS: Russians, I feel, in a lot of ways are much more in touch with their melancholic side.America tries to stifle melancholy.And people are sort of putting on a happy face and trying to be cheery and polite ...It's in the literature and in the art.But there's also a lot of humor and self deprecation.TM: Do you have a typical songwriting process?RS: There's really not...And I'm on the road so much that sometimes I'm just like "ARGH!Like you've been holding in peeing for a while and then you pee and it's so good and you're like "Ahhh.TM: That's a great analogy!Where do you draw inspiration for them?RS: Observing people all around.You know, mannerisms, accents, complexes...RS: There are so many cool musicians.Strokes, and that was really amazing...Paul McCartney's guitarist Rusty came in and played...And I also have two musicians from Central Park who played on it.One is Ralphie Williams and he's a saxophone player...And then we had another who played the erhu.It's this stringed Chinese instrument.It's kinda got a sound like (*she emulates the erhu with her voice*).TM: So what excites you the most about the new album, Begin to Hope?I've never made anything that I liked listening to.I'd never listen to it again...TM: So what songs did you want to take off Soviet Kitsch?I'm really grateful to Gordon (Raphael, the producer) that he talked me into keeping it.For some reason in my mind, when we finished it, I felt "It's too long.And got really crazy about it.Remember that movie The Conversation?RS: But sometimes you're right!Like for this new record, I had probably done 70 takes of "Samson.".New York that same day and I got home and I was like "this is the wrong Samson."And I called my label and I said "the record's not done."And they all thought that I was crazy...And I was right, my instinct was right.It takes a balance between trying to trust other people and knowing that sometimes you're going to want to erase the best track on the record, but also knowing that just because everybody says "this is great" and your instinct says "no, this is not the one" that you can do it because it is your record.Mozart and somebody who'd be really witty (pauses to think)...Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music.Born and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Western pop and rock as a young child and also learned to play piano.She continued to practice piano anywhere she could, including at her synagogue, until her family got a piano of their own.Songs, Spektor developed a following that included Alan Bezozi, They Might Be Giants' drummer; he introduced Spektor to the Strokes' producer, Gordon Raphael.DVD retrospective Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories early in 2006; that summer, Begin to Hope, her first album of original material for Sire, arrived.Some of the information on this page is provided by All Music Guide and does not necessarily reflect the views of Ticketmaster.By continuing past this page, you agree to abide by these terms.URL for paid search terms.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.See all 75 customer reviews...Want it delivered Friday, January 11?Day Shipping at checkout.See all 75 customer reviews...FSCommands are received by VBScript in IE.Track states defined in AlbumSampler.Images representing the various track states."Embedding code will be displayed here."Instant Ringtones in 30 Seconds.No Credit Card Required.Send Regina Spektor ringtones to your cell phone now!Add a iframe that allows us 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a9AdsViewNamespace.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?The comparisons to Tori Amos or Bjork or Kate Bush or Fiona Apple (or Laura Nyro or Joni Mitchell to go back a ways) are more points of reference to give us some bearing regarding Regina Spektor's eccentric and original Soviet Kitsch.Aren't they all the same, then?Was this review helpful to you?Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."It's all done to simple melodies that are simultaneously reminiscent of Jewish folk songs, John Valby and Tori Amos and in a voice that can change swiftly between Bjork and Fiona Apple.The result is slightly disturbing.CD is worth listening to just to stretch your listening ear a bit, but I don't know that it's a work worth anybody's desert island record list.To sum it up, Regina's songs are precious, personal little gems that actually make you feel happy to be alive.Dresden Dolls recently, and I have never, NEVER in my life seen virtually the whole audience fall in love with an opening act so hard and not want them to leave, ESPECIALLY when they're rabid fans of the headliner.If you haven't seen her live and are just going by the album, you may think it's a little cutesy at first, possibly even a little too precious, but I promise it will grow on you if you give it a chance to really open up.And she doesn't sound like Tori Amos at all, in my opinion.Tori, but it's a veeeery apples and oranges deal.Regina Spektor's Soviet Kitsch sounds kind of like Neutral Milk Hotel's Aeroplane Over The Sea and Kate Bush's The Dreaming mixed together, only the lyrics are...Published 2 months ago by T.This review is a little bias, I like her music, so I like this CD.My suggestion, go to a site where you can sample the songs, or even to a brick and mortar...If you like jewel boxes, DON'T BUY THIS HERE!"Begin to Hope," which I loved, and was not disappointed.CD after having purchased "Begin to Hope" and seeing Regina in concert.This CD has a good collection of Regina's early songs...Hopefully it was repeat, her repeated use of profanity is disappointing.Published 5 months ago by George A.This is a grat CD for New or existing Regina Spektor fans, the only thing I do recomend that you check is if the cd come in a cd case, or one of those flimsy cardboard sleves, it...This is, as far as I know, her first recordings, and the songs deal with many not so pleasant topics, but she has a way of pulling the matter together which is unique and...What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Disc A: A list by Joshua J.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Off Your StairMaster and Nautilus Purchase
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