how can i hit you where it hurts when you have no balls you woman ! <| sep |> My friend ' s cat was who through the head with an arrow when she let her outside . People are sick . <| sep |> What ' s your psn ? utomshakalaka I ' ll tradeOr you could invite me ? <| sep |> So basically do what someone with 0 training would do . <| sep |> Regina Spektor artist picimg 2 . akamaized . netiu 25237 atelac 79900856 abcc 7 ba 88 . png Regina Spektor born Regina Ilyinichna Spektor on 18 February 1980 in Moscow is a Russianborn American singersongwriter and pianist . Her music is associated with the antifolk scene centered on New York City ' s East Village . Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six , practising on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather . She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles , Queen , and The Moody Blues by her father , who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union . The family left the Soviet Union in 1989 , when Regina was nine , during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate . The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving Russia , but they finally decided to emigrate , for religious and political reasons . Travelling first to Austria and then Italy , the family settled in the Bronx , New York , United States where Spektor graduated from a middle school yeshiva . She then attended the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus , New Jersey on a scholarship for two years , but , feeling out of place , eventually transferred to a secular public school , Fair Lawn High School , in Fair Lawn , New Jersey , where she finished the last two years of her high school career . In New York , Spektor gained a firm grounding in classical music from her piano teacher , Sonia Vargas , a professor at the Manhattan School of Music . Spektor studied with Vargaswhom Spektor ' s father had met through violinist Samuel Marder , Vargas ' s husbanduntil she was 17 . Although the family had been unable to bring their piano with them from Russia , Spektor found a piano on which to practice in the basement of her synagogue , also utilizing tabletops and other hard surfaces for this purpose . Although she had always made up songs around the house , Spektor first became interested in songwriting during a visit to Israel with the Nesiya Institute in her teenage years . Attracting attention from the other children on the trip for the songs she made up while hiking , she realized she had an aptitude for songwriting . Following this trip , she was first exposed to the work of Joni Mitchell , Ani DiFranco , and other singersongwriters , which gave her the idea that she could create her own songs . She began writing her first a cappella songs around age 16 , and wrote her first songs for voice and piano when she was nearly eighteen . Spektor completed the fouryear studio composition program of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in Purchase , New York , including one year ' s study in London , at the University of Middlesex graduating with honours in 2001 . Around this time , she also worked briefly at a butterfly farm in Luck , Wisconsin . She gradually achieved recognition through performances in the antifolk scene in downtown New York City , most importantly at the East Village ' s Sidewalk Cafe , but also at the Living Room , Tonic , Fez , the Knitting Factory , and CB ' s Gallery . During this period , she sold her selfproduced CDs 1111 2001 and Songs 2002 at such performances . The All The Rowboats Songfacts states that What We Saw From The Cheap Seats , Spektor ' s sixth album , was recorded by the singer with Mike Elizondo in Los Angeles during the summer of 2011 . It was released on May 29 , 2012 . Read more on Last . fm . Spektor 1 , 760 , 394 listeners , 83 , 742 , 316 plays tags female vocalists , indie , singersongwriter , piano , alternative Please downvote if incorrect ! Selfdeletes if score is 0 .