Regina Spektor is a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist. After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes. Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical Russian-Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. 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. She grew up listening to classical music. Her father, also exposed her to rock and roll . The family left the Soviet Union for the Bronx in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half. The Spektor family was admitted to the United States. They settled in the Bronx, where she graduated from the SAR Academy, a professor at the Manhattan School of Music, until she was 17. She attended high school for two years at the Frisch School, but transferred to a public school, Fair Lawn High School where she finished the last two years of her high school education. She was originally interested in classical music only, but later became interested in hip hop, rock, and punk as well. She wrote her first a cappella songs around the age of 16 and her first songs for voice and piano when she was nearly 18. Spektor completed the four-year studio composition program of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College within three years, graduating with honors in 2001 and around this time studied in London for one term. She gradually achieved recognition through performances in the a New York City. She sold self-published CDs at her performances. Her first nationwide tour was accompanying on their 2003–2004 which included performances at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. While on the tour, she and the band performed and recorded "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men". After the tour, Kings of Leon who were the second opening act on the tour, invited her to open for them on their own European tour. In 2004, She signed a contract with Warner Brothers and distribute her third album Soviet Kitsch. In 2005, she began making her first TV appearances including guest spots on various late-night talk shows. In June 2005, she was the opening act for the English piano rock band Keane on their North American tour, during which she performed at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2005. She went on to release the album Begin to Hope on June 13, 2006, was certified Gold by the RIAA. She received Spektor's 2006 headlining tour in support of the Begin to Hope album included back-to-back hometown shows at Town Hall Theater in New York City on September 27. This tour was Spektor's first to feature a full backing band. She reached on Blender magazine's top 100 of 2006 and was also listed as one of the "Hottest Women of Rock". On January 21, 2007, she was given an extensive feature on CBS News Sunday Morning which showcased her musical beginnings and growing popularity. In 2007, she began performing at several major music festivals including Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Virgin Festival and Austin City Limits Music Festival. In promotion for the single, the duo performed the song together on several late-night talk shows. Spektor announced her seventh album, Remember Us to Life on July 21. The first single, "Bleeding Heart", was released July 22, 2016. Regina Spektor performed George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", released August 5, 2016, for the film Kubo and the Two Strings. In 2016, she was one of the artists featured on The Hamilton Mixtape; she sings a remix of "Dear Theodosia" with Ben Folds. On March 25, 2019, Spektor announced she would be bringing her music to Broadway as the Artist in Residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for five performances June 20–26, 2019.

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