Admit it or not, we all have this inner craving to like the weird stuff. We normally dismiss this as a phase, but once our attentions have been caught-off by something different, it’s so much like a selfish black hole that sucked us in. We wriggled free, but to no avail. Long before you noticed, you are not the only one trapped to this adoration, there are hordes of fanatics screaming the same mantra as you have.
I can classify Regina Spektor as weird. Weird in a very enjoyable way. It’s like drinking a freshly squished orange juice with bits of lime. She is mainstream yet indie. She is the kind of artist that you can put under the real artist class. She looked naïve yet well-aware, her voice soft yet bold at the edges. She is the living testament of that saying ‘less is more’ but her talent is overflowing to its brim that you don’t mind being splashed off of the excess.
One cool fact about Regina Spektor is that she is a full-bred Russian lady. Born Regina Ilynichna Spektor, this 35-year old singer-songwriter and adept pianist had moved the world to love her sound, and sight, which focuses on anti-folk scene on East Village, New York.
Upbringing had played a vital role on enriching Regina’s musicality. With an amateur violinist for a father and a music professor for a mother, it is no wonder that she will be soon a musician of her own kind. Growing up in a musically-inclined city of Moscow, Russia plus the 1980’s music scene, she had been exposed to various artists like The Beatles, Queen and the Moody Blues. She also had been saturated with classical sound through listening to Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava, both of Russian origin.
After her family’s migration to New York City, the great Regina Spektor’s travel to become a well-known worldwide artist had started.
Like most of the artists we have come to love nowadays, Regina kicked-off her singing career by performing to small-time clubs surrounding her neighborhood. New York City is a catch basin for independent bands and artists alike and so Spektor took advantage by listing to numerous cafes and clubs such as East Village’s Sidewalk Café, Living Room, Tonic, Fez and CB’s Gallery to name a few.
It was in 2004 that she signed with Warner Brother’s record label Sire Records for her third album Soviet Kitsch which she originally self-released a year before. Being the self-sufficing artists that she is, Regina Spektor had also self-released two albums on 2001 and 2001, 11:11 and Songs.
We heard her song Fidelity way back in 2006 which peaked at number 20 at the Billboard 200.
Fidelity is part of her Begin to Hope album which debuted at number 70 under the same record chart. Fidelity, with its catchy tune and fresh lyrical composition had been heralded by Sirius Radio as the number 1 song of 2006. Numerous citations had been given to Spektor after Fidelity’s imminent success such as being a part of VH1’s Top 20 countdown, getting the 33rd spot of Blender Magazine’s Top 100 of 2006 and so much more.
You can also hear Regina Spektor’s The Call on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as its original movie soundtrack.
Currently, there’s so much to expect from Regina Spektor after lying low on the music scene after she released her sixth studio album What We Saw from the Cheap Seats on May 2012.
Fidelity, Regina Spektor
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