Meanwhile, she continued to practice piano anywhere she could, including at her synagogue, until her family got a piano of its own. Eventually, Spektor and her family became part of a community that balanced her Russian Jewish roots with her new home's culture.
She and her family moved from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture (at the time, hers was the first Russian family in the borough in 20 years). Her eighth album, 2022's Home, before and after, joined together the pop, minimalist acoustic, and dramatic orchestral stylings of prior releases.īorn and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Western pop and rock as a young child and also learned to play piano. Spektor's notable stand-alone tracks have included her Grammy-nominated theme song for Orange Is the New Black and her cover of "Dear Theodosia," a duet with Ben Folds for The Hamilton Mixtape. In the meantime, she collaborated on duets with artists ranging from the Strokes to Joshua Bell. A classically trained pianist with a vocal delivery that's often warm and punky at once, her music has traversed the spare, self-recorded Songs (2002) the idiosyncratic adult alternative pop of her Top 20 breakthrough Begin to Hope (2006) and the at-times-fully orchestrated Remember Us to Life (2016). An alumna of New York's anti-folk scene, songwriter Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music.
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