Having provided the theme song for one of the most acclaimed TV series of recent years, Regina Spektor is returning to the UK for a tour which includes a date at the Albert Hall in Manchester on November 10.
Spektor’s music has reached a whole new audience thanks to the track You’ve Got Time which opens every episode of the hit show Orange Is The New Black.
She has just released her seventh album Remember Us To Life which she will be promoting on the UK tour.
This marks Spektor’s first album since 2012’s What We Saw From The Cheap Seats which debuted at number 3 on the Billboard Album Chart and her Grammy-nominated theme song You’ve Got Time.
Remember Us To Life is composed entirely of all new songs recently written by Spektor, a change from past albums when she would record songs written throughout her career.
Spektor gave birth to her first child in 2014 and she spent considerable time writing during and after her pregnancy.
“I made more art and felt more inspired than I had in a long time,” she says.
Spektor recorded the album with producer Leo Abrahams (David Byrne/Brian Eno, Frightened Rabbit, Paolo Nutini) in Los Angeles at The Village Studios.
Born in the Soviet Union, Spektor began studying classical piano when she was six. Her family emigrated in 1989, landing in New York City, where she continued her classical training.
Spektor eventually studied composition at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College where she graduated with honours.
She began writing pop songs in her late teens and made her recorded debut in 2001 with the self-released 11:11, a collection of songs heavily influenced by jazz and blues. Songs followed in 2002 and Soviet Kitsch in 2004.
Spektor’s commercial breakthrough came in 2006 on her fourth album Begin to Hope. The Gold-certified album included the singles On the Radio, Better and 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 number three on the Billboard Album Chart.
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 and (500) Days of Summer.
Spektor played for the Obamas and guests at the White House and performed as part of philanthropic campaigns for Tibet, Doctors Without Borders and many more.
Her most recent tours included her first concerts in her native Russia plus sold -out shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, The Royal Albert Hall in London and two nights at Sydney Opera House in Australia.
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