Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Begin to Hope
  AT 72 09/08/2006 (1 week)
  UK 53 
gold
gold
07/22/2006 (10 weeks)
  US 20th 
gold
gold
13/01/2007 (35 weeks)
Far
  DE 83 07/10/2009 (1 week)
  AT 41 07/10/2009 (3 weeks)
  CH 53 07/12/2009 (2 weeks)
  UK 30th 04/07/2009 (5 weeks)
  US 3 07/11/2009 (19 weeks)
What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
  DE 46 06/08/2012 (1 week)
  AT 26th 06/08/2012 (3 weeks)
  CH 24 06/10/2012 (4 weeks)
  UK 24 06/09/2012 (1 week)
  US 3 06/16/2012 (9 weeks)
Remember Us to Life
  AT 57 10/14/2016 (1 week)
  CH 54 10/09/2016 (1 week)
  UK 47 07/10/2016 (1 week)
  US 23 10/22/2016 (1 week)
Singles
Us
  UK 81 02/25/2006 (1 week)
On the radio
  UK 60 07/15/2006 (1 week)
Fidelity
  UK 45 03/03/2007 (4 weeks)
  US 51 
gold
gold
12/30/2006 (13 weeks)

Regina Spektor ( Russian Регина Ильинична Спектор ; German Regina Iljinitschna Spektor; born February 18, 1980 in Moscow ) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter from Russia who is counted on the alternative and pop scene.

Life

When Regina Spektor was nine years old, her Jewish parents, a music teacher and a photographer, emigrated with her to the USA via Austria and Italy due to anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. She grew up in the Bronx , New York , and after training in classical music, she recorded her first self-produced album 11:11 in 2001 with her own songs. She first produced her third album Soviet Kitsch herself and then in 2002 together with the producer of the band The Strokes , on whose North American tour Regina Spektor appeared as a pre-artist that same year. The song Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men , which can be heard on the single Reptilia by the Strokes , was created in cooperation . A European tour with Kings of Leon followed. Only the last two Regina Spektors albums were also distributed in Europe, until 2005 Regina Spektors commercial success was limited to the USA, especially its east coast.

In 2007 Spektor was able to achieve another success in Europe - the single Fidelity entered the British single charts at number 45. The single just barely missed the top 50 in the USA at number 51 on the Billboard charts . That same year she contributed the song Real Love , a cover by John Lennon , to the album Make Some Noise - The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur . In 2008 she sang the title You Don't Know Me in a duet with Ben Folds on his album Way to Normal .

In 2008 Spektor participated with the song The Call on the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian of Narnia . For the television series Orange Is the New Black , Spektor recorded the title song You've Got Time in 2013 , which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Song . She is featured with two songs on the soundtrack of the comedy (500) Days of Summer .

In the summer of 2010, one day before Regina Spektors concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival , her cellist and band leader Daniel Cho drowned in Lake Geneva . Regina Spektor gave birth to a son in March 2014. Her child's father is writer, comedian, musician, actor and producer Jack Dishel (formerly with The Moldy Peaches ). He was also born in the Soviet Union. The two have been married since 2011, live in New York and occasionally work together.

Her seventh studio album Remember Us to Life was released on September 30, 2016 , four years after its predecessor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats .

style

Spector's style is described by the leading pop music webzine Popmatters as a "typical New York anomaly": It combines absurd combinations of images in texts with a soulful, empathetic voice that has made a name for it in the US indie scene. Her charming voice and the unusualness of her pieces are highlighted by the Rolling Stone .

"I make some decisions consciously because I don't want to be a pop star, but see myself as a working singer-songwriter who wants to explore her possibilities and grow musically."

- Regina Spektor

Discography

Albums

  • 2001: 11:11
  • 2002: Songs
  • 2004: Soviet Kitsch
  • 2006: Begin to Hope
  • 2009: Far
  • 2012: What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
  • 2016: Remember Us to Life

Concert albums

EPs

  • 2005: Live at Bull Moose EP
  • 2007: Live in California 2006

Singles

  • 2006: Carbon Monoxide
  • 2006: Us
  • 2006: On the Radio
  • 2006: Fidelity
  • 2007: Hotel Song
  • 2007: Samson
  • 2007: Better
  • 2008: Raindrops
  • 2009: Laughing With
  • 2010: No Surprises
  • 2010: The Call
  • 2012: All the Rowboats
  • 2012: Don't Leave Me ( Ne me quitte pas )

Compilations

Collaborations

  • 2004: Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men (B-Side on the single "Reptilia" by The Strokes )
  • 2007: Hell No (together with Sondre Lerche for the Dan - Mitten im Leben! Soundtrack)
  • 2008: You Don't Know Me (together with Ben Folds on his album Way to Normal )
  • 2009: Left Hand Song (together with Joshua Bell on the album At Home With Friends )
  • 2011: Evil Twin Brother (together with Thomas Dolby on the album A Map of the Floating City )
  • 2017: Revival (Interlude) (together with Marshall Mathers on the album Revival )

Awards

year price category Nominee work Result
2006 Shortlist Music Prize Shortlist Music Prize Begin to Hope Nominated
2012 MTV Video Music Awards Best Art Direction All the rowboats Nominated
2014 Grammy Award Best Song Written for Visual Media You've got time Nominated

literature

Web links

Commons : Regina Spektor  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US UK
  3. ↑ Melissa Block: Stories in Song: Regina Spektor's 'Begin to Hope' . NPR's All Things Considered, June 9, 2006.
  4. ↑ Cellist drowns in Lake Geneva . laut.de; Retrieved December 1, 2010
  5. ^ Regina Spektor's Facebook page, the news published on April 1, 2014
  6. ↑ Michael Frauenhofer: Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope . Popmatters, June 12, 2006.
  7. ↑ Jenny Eliscu: Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope . Rolling Stone, June 12, 2006.
  8. ↑ Roman Elsener: Pop Expressionist: Regina Spektor mixes styles, cultures and languages . In: NZZ , May 25, 2012; Review; Retrieved June 10, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Spector, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Спектор, Регина Ильинична
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American singer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow