Regina Spektor’s music reflects pride in her Russian and Jewish background.
“Is it possible that all this magic went unnoticed?” sings Regina Spektor in “Reading Time with Pickle.” This lyric describes Spektor’s music — it’s pure magic because her melodies bring people together.
Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow to a musical, Jewish family. She quickly learned to play piano at age 6, and it soon became a passion of hers. When she was 9 her family left the former Soviet Union. They landed in Austria, then Italy and finally, the Spektor family entered the United States with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).
She moved to New York and continued to play piano, practicing on her synagogue’s instrument. She didn’t give up on her music or her culture and made a successful career out of her talents.
Spektor lived in the Bronx and graduated eighth grade from SAR Academy, a Jewish day school in Riverdale, then moved to New Jersey to continue her high school studies. For two years she studied at Frisch School, a yeshiva in New Jersey, before transferring to Fair Lawn High School, a public school where she got her high school diploma.
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