Regina: This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
Regina Spektor(on writing her own music): It's fun, it's a statement to yourself to be free.
Her songs have been played on hit television shows such as Grey's Anatomy and CSI:NY.
Regina and her family left the Soviet Union in 1989 during the period of Perestroika, when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate.
She started playing the piano at age six.
She had two sold-out shows at NYC City Hall.
She sings, writes her own music, produces, and plays the piano.
She attended Yeshiva Middle School. She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey, but she moved to Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
She was #33 on Blender magazine's top 100 of 2006.
Regina was named #5 on Vh1's Top Artists Charts in 2006.
She began writing her first a songs around the age of 16, and wrote her first songs for voice and piano when she was 18.
Her family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine.
Her father was a photographer and also a violinist. Her mother was a music professor in a Russian college of music, and she now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
Regina plays the guitar and piano.
Regina has a hit song out called " Fidelity ".
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