Get exclusive information about Regina Spektor tour dates, video premieres and special announcements. Thought you ought to know by now I thought you ought to know by now Everybody not so nice, nice Everybody not so nice, nice. How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me…. She been skipping days, spilling her drinks in the sink And you know she never coming home, Never coming home again But when, when, when she open her eyes, eyes, eyes Beyond the chipping paint of the window pane Lies, lies, lies Her patron saint Broken and lame And absolutely insane For learning that true love exists. A man inside a room is shaking hands with other men This is how it happens, our carefully laid plans. A man inside a room is shaking hands with other men This is how it happens, our world under command. I am down the road and up the hill I wait for you still Wires round my fingers Potentially lovely Perpetually human Suspended and open Open Open. I am through those woods and past the trains I wait here in vain Scrubbing out the stains again Potentially lovely Perpetually human Suspended and open Open Open. In the night the snow starts falling And everybody stares Through the windows at the street lights Too beautiful to see….
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Get exclusive information about Regina Spektor tour dates, video premieres and special announcements. These shows will take place this fall close to when the new record comes out. The full list of shows and ticket information is here , and just like for the European shows, tickets will be available first to you guys who have signed up for my mailing list via a password protected presale. The presale is happening on Wednesday August 17th at 10am local venue time. This is so that everyone has a fair chance to purchase tickets. For all the details on the Rough Trade show, click here! More soon! All good wishes, regi.
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After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes , particularly the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village , Spektor signed with Sire Records in and began achieving greater mainstream recognition. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. The family left the Soviet Union for the Bronx in , when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika , when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind. Since the family had been unable to bring their piano from Moscow, Spektor practiced on tabletops and other hard surfaces until she found a piano on which to play in the basement of her synagogue. Spektor was originally interested in classical music only, but later became interested in hip hop , rock, and punk as well.
A couple of weeks ago, the singer-songwriter Regina Spektor was shown into a soundproofed rehearsal studio in midtown. The piano in the studio was a Yamaha, although officially she pledges allegiance to Steinway. Since her breakout, in the downtown anti-folk scene of the early two-thousands, the Soviet-born singer has combined dazzling musicianship with an ethereal, offbeat presence—her accent brings to mind a Russian Betty Boop—and lyrics that go in unexpected directions. The Broadway gig, she said, is a chance to mash up what she likes about playing solo with what she likes about playing with an orchestra, plus a few extra bells and whistles. Spektor has dabbled with Broadway before, less successfully. I love strangeness.
