Regina Spektor

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'Oh my God. This is so weird. And exciting." Regina Spektor is standing on a corner in Greenwich Village, looking at a poster of herself. This is the first time she has come across her own face on a wall in her home city. She skips from leg to leg, and poses for the photographer in front of it, her expression alternating delight and wonder. "There's me, and there's the Mona Lisa drinking beer." A lager ad has been pasted adjacent to one for her new album, Begin to Hope. "It's so surreal." She considers the matter further and laughs. "I mean, what the fuck am I doing on a fucking wall in New York City?"

Spektor was born in Russia of Jewish parents, but her family emigrated to the US when she was nine, settling in the Bronx. Now she lives in Manhattan, and it's impossible to imagine her music - combining a childlike sense of wonder, and vivid, surreal images, set to an eclectic, often piano-led backing - coming from any other city.

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Source: UK Guardian