Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor (Russian Регина Ильинична Спектор; born February 18, 1980 in Moscow ) is a Russian-born American singer, pianist and songwriter, which is counted to the alternative and anti- folk scene.
Life
In 2007, Spektor achieve further success in Europe - the single Fidelity rose in the UK singles charts at rank 45. The TOP 50 of the United States missed the single with number 51 on the Billboard charts just barely. That same year she contributed the song Real Love, a cover of John Lennon, to the album Make Some Noise - The Amnesty International Campaign to at Save Darfur. In 2008 she sang a duet with Ben Folds on his album Way to Normal the title You Do not Know Me She also contributed a song to the soundtrack of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian at. Also on the soundtrack of (500 ) Days of Summer, it is represented with two songs.
In the summer of 2010, one day before Regina Spektor concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, her cellist and band leader Daniel Cho drowned in Lake Geneva.
Style
Spektors style is described by the leading pop music webzine PopMatters as " typical New Yorker anomaly ": You connect absurd combinations of images in texts with a mawkish - empathetic voice that have made her a name in the U.S. indie scene. Your insinuating voice and the unusual nature of their pieces are highlighted by Rolling Stone.
"I make some decisions deliberately because I want to be a pop star, but see myself as a working singer- songwriter who want to explore their options and musically grow."
Discography
Albums
- 2001: 11:11
- 2002: Songs
- 2004: Soviet Kitsch
- 2006: Begin to Hope
- 2009: Far
- 2012: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
Concert albums
- 2010: Live in London (DVD / Bluray 2CD ) ( Concert in London on 4 December 2009)
EPs
- 2007: Live in California 2006
Singles
- 2006: Carbon Monoxide
- 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: Do not Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas )
Compilations
- 2000: Public Domain
- 2006: Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories by Regina Spektor
- 2007: Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
- 2008: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Soundtrack
Collaborations
- 2004: Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men ( B-Side on the single " Reptilia " by The Strokes)
- 2007: Hell No (along with Sondre Lerche for Dan - In Real Life soundtrack! )
- 2008: You Do not Know Me ( with Ben Folds on his album Way to Normal)
- 2011: Evil Twin Brother (along with Thomas Dolby on the album A Map of the Floating City )