Ten Interesting facts:
(About Regina Spektor)
- Born and raised, till age nine, in Moscow,USSR
- Practiced piano in a synagogue
- Furthered her piano practice in the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory
- Started off playing anywhere she could, ranging from basements to comedy clubs
- Jewish
- Father was a photographer and "amateur violinist"
- Mother was a music professor in a Russian College of music
- She and her family left Russia due to ethnic and political discrimination Jews faced
- Fluent in Russian, reads Hebrew
- Worked on a butterfly farm
If I had to take one word from the biographies I've read in Regina, it would be "unorthodox". Seems appropriate. Not that she herself as a person is, but her style more or less. It's an interesting topic to discuss because she goes about it in such a "unorthodox" fashion. Unlike most singer-song writers, Regina doesn't revolve her songs around a particular style. She gives her songs their own style, their own "character" so to speak.
Knowing a bit about where she has come from also gives me a better understanding to some of her cultural choices made in her songs. Perhaps not so much in the album I chose ( Begin to Hope), this is probably her least cultural, but in many others she brings forth her Russian and Jewish heritage. Also finding out that she was born into a musical family, gives me the impression that she is really in love with what she does. Also the fact of her pursuing her piano skills at any costs in any way shape or form, shows her dedication to making it to the top.
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