Regina Spektor

Biography

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.

Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Saturday Night Live

The View

The Colbert Report

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

All Movies (10)

• Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song2022 · as Self
• Echo in the Canyon2019 · as Self
• Other Music2019 · as Self
• Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage2017
• Adam Green's Aladdin2016 · as Concerned Townsperson
• Hava Nagila: The Movie2012 · as Self
• Regina Spektor: Live in London2010
• The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway2006 · as Self
• Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories2006
• The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch2004 · as Herself

All TV Shows (12)

• The Romanoffs2018 · as Special Vocal Performance
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Musical Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Musical Guest
• The Colbert Report2005
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Musical Guest
• VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown2003
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Musical Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Musical Guest