
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.

Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015

Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975

The Colbert Report
TV • 2005

The View
TV • 1997

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001

The Romanoffs
TV • 2018

VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
TV • 2003

Other Music
MOVIE • 2019

Adam Green's Aladdin
MOVIE • 2016

Regina Spektor: Live in London
MOVIE • 2010

Echo in the Canyon
MOVIE • 2019

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
MOVIE • 2022

Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
MOVIE • 2017