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Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor

American musician
Eclectic adult alternative singer/songwriter who began in New York's anti-folk scene before making her commercial breakthrough in 2004.
BornFebruary 18, 1980
HometownMoscow, Russia
Net worth$12 million
Height5'4" (1.62m)
SpouseJack Dishel
ParentsBella Spektor, Ilya Spektor
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Regina Spektor finds God, and MUNA channel a Year Six disco – the week’s best albums

  • Regina Spektor’s eighth album opens with a strong gambit, as the Russian-American singer-songwriter describes an encounter with God on a New York street corner, conjuring this mystical visitation in cheerfully mundane terms: they decide to “grab a beer” and “we didn’t even have to pay / 'Cause God is God, and he’s revered”. Naturally, she has questions: “Why doesn’t it get better with time?” she wants to know, evoking the confusions and challenges of life with a particularly artful verse: “I jus
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