First promoted by Toby L in the UK, Regina was brought to us through The Strokes' producer Gordon Raphael. After falling in love with her utterly unique genius (hell, frankly, after falling in love with her) we found out that a planned re-release of her third album 'Soviet Kitsch' was on the cards.
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Disappointed that the world at large would never enjoy the gems on her first two albums, we engineered the licence and creation of an early days compilation, chosen by her and entitled ‘Mary Ann meets the Grave Diggers and Other Short Stories’.
This classic album featured the anthem ‘Us’, and followed a one off single version of ‘Carbon Monoxide’ on the label, before she moved on to the legendary Sire records for her new album ‘Begin to Hope’ (which has since gone on to sell almost a million copies worldwide). This gold-certified album included the singles “Better,” “Samson,” “Fidelity,” which climbed the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Spektor’s fifth album, Far released in 2009, and sixth album, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats released in 2012, both debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Regina’s newest record, Remember Us To Life, came out in September 2016.
Spektor’s songs have appeared in TV shows and movies including Orange Is The New Black, Grey’s Anatomy, Weeds, How I Met Your Mother, Veronica Mars, The Good Wife, (500) Days of Summer, In Bruges, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, as well as many more. Spektor played for the Obamas and guests at the White House and performed as part of philanthropic campaigns for HIAS, Doctors Without Borders, Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, Amnesty International, Planned Parenthood, and many other organizations.
