"I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers," she says. She also talks about how, unlike many songwriters, her songs aren't personal. The hiccup sounds, she says, were like discovering she had a tambourine in her throat. And as a result, she often incorporated hiccups and other odd sounds into her work. Songwriting was difficult for her, she says, after studying classical music from the great composers. Spektor recalls how difficult it was to leave behind the family piano, which she began playing when she was 6. "It feels so good inside my body."Ī Russian Jew, Spektor and her family fled the anti-Semitism of the Soviet Union and emigrated to the Bronx when she was 9 years old. "It feels very good to sing in Russian," the 26-year-old says. On her new release, Begin to Hope, singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor sings in her native Russian for the first time.
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