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Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (, ; ; born February 18, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in the Soviet Union where she began classical training on the piano at the age of 6.〔http://www.npr.org/2012/08/27/160106266/regina-spektor-on-growing-up-a-soviet-kid〕 When she was 9 years old, her family emigrated to the United States where she continued her classical training into her teenage years; she began to write original songs shortly thereafter. After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes, particularly the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village, Spektor signed with Sire Records in 2004 where she began achieving greater mainstream notoriety.〔http://tweedmag.com/News/Regina_Spektor_Soviet_Kitsch.html〕 After giving her third album a major label re-release, Sire released her fourth album, ''Begin to Hope'' which would go on to achieve Gold certification. 〔http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Regina%20Spektor&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2007&sort=Artist&perPage=25〕 Her following two albums, ''Far'' and ''What We Saw from the Cheap Seats'', each debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200. Recently, she has been remarked for the composition and recording of the intro song "You've Got Time" for the Netflix Original series ''Orange Is the New Black''.〔 ==Early life and musical beginnings== Spektor was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, in 1980 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/0182004 )〕 She has a brother Boruch (Bear), who was featured in track 7, " * * *", or "Whisper", of her 2004 album, ''Soviet Kitsch''. Growing up in Moscow, Regina 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.〔 The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika, when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind. 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 ethnic and political discrimination that Jews faced.〔Soundcheck interview (2005-09-13) ("From Russia with Love" ). New York Public Radio.〕 Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the Spektor family was admitted to the United States as refugees with the assistance of HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). They settled in the Bronx, where Spektor graduated from the SAR Academy, a Jewish day middle school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. 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. In New York City, Spektor studied classical piano with Sonia Vargas, a professor at the Manhattan School of Music, until she was 17; Spektor's father had met Vargas through her husband, violinist Samuel Marder. Spektor attended high school for two years at the Frisch School, a yeshiva in Paramus, New Jersey, but transferred to a public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school education. Spektor was originally interested in classical music only, but later became interested in hip hop, rock, and punk as well.〔 Although she had always made up songs around the house, she first became interested in more formal songwriting during a visit to Israel with the Nesiya Institute in her teenage years when she attracted attention from the other children on the trip for the songs she made up while hiking.〔 Following this trip, she was exposed to the work of Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, and other singer-songwriters, who encouraged her belief that she could create her own songs.〔 She wrote her first a cappella songs around the age of 16 and her first songs for voice and piano when she was nearly 18.〔 Spektor completed the four-year studio composition program of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College within three years, graduating with honors in 2001. Around this time, she also worked briefly at a butterfly farm in Luck, Wisconsin,〔Versatile Regina Spektor floats among her song stories, ''Wisconsin State Journal'' (Madison, WI), October 12, 2006〕 and studied in Tottenham (a suburb of London) for one term.〔("Regina Spektor ): 'Art comes from a different place'" 12 May 2012 ''The Guardian''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regina Spektor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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