Regina Spektor

ABOUT REGINA SPEKTOR

Anti-folk singer-songwriter whose songs "Us" and "Hero" were featured in the film 500 Days of Summer . Her album Begin to Hope was a breakout success, peaking at #20 on the Billboard charts, and her song "You've Got Time" is featured in the opening credits of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black .

She studied piano and classical voice at the Manhattan School of Music.

She won the 2009 Studio 8 Female Voice Award.

In 2011, she married Jack Dishel . Together, they have a son who was born in March of 2014.

Her lyrics were influenced by the poetry of Ezra Pound .