Spektor was originally interested in classical music only, but later became interested in, rock, and as well. Spektor attended high school for two years at the, a in, but transferred to a public school, in, where she finished the last two years of her high school education. In New York City, Spektor studied classical piano with Sonia Vargas, a professor at the, until she was 17 Spektor's father had met Vargas through Vargas' husband, violinist Samuel Marder. Since the family had been unable to bring their piano from Moscow, Spektor practiced on tabletops and other hard surfaces until she found a piano on which to play in the basement of her synagogue. They settled in, where Spektor graduated from the, a in the section of the Bronx.

Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the Spektor family was admitted to the United States as refugees with the assistance of (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving the Soviet Union, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to the racial, ethnic, and political discrimination that Jews faced. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of, when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate.

Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to bands such as, and. She grew up listening to classical music and famous like and. Growing up in Moscow, Regina learned how to play the piano by practising on a that her grandfather gave her mother. She has a brother Boruch (also known as Bear), who was featured in track 7, '* * *', or 'Whisper', of her 2004 album. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist.

Early life and musical beginnings Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, to a musical family.

Here you can download regina spektor rar shared files: Regina Spektor Songs. Though the label re-released Soviet Kitsch in 2004, Begin to Hope is Spektor's first original material for Sire, and it feels more like a major-label debut than Soviet Kitsch ever did. On Begin to Hope, Regina Spektor treads a delicate balance between her anti-folk past and her present home on Sire Records.

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