{"id":1224,"date":"2009-02-09T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:03:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:03:27","slug":"a-singer-worth-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"TED2009 Inspirations: Regina Spektor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening in the last days to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reginaspektor.com\/\">Regina Spektor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommend all her songs. So far my favorite is &#8220;Apr?s Moi&#8221; from &#8220;Begin to Hope&#8221; &#8211; may be because she sings a little bit in Russian there, or may be because I listened to the live performance at the TED. Whatever the reason, she&#8217;s really, really outstanding performer.<\/p>\n<p>Her music could touch all the hidden parts in your heart, and make them come to the sunshine. It may sound scary in the beginning, but as a matter of fact, the feeling is almost impossible to describe: breathing becomes intense, tears go up your eyes, and when she starts singing in Russian, her voice changes dramatically; if you are not crying by then, you must have no heart.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what causes the sudden change in the language, and the voice &#8211; could be that she sings about February (and Russia has a lot to deal with in February, and not only because that&#8217;s the month when Regina is born).<\/p>\n<p>Or could be that she actually sings about crying &#8211; and with the sound of her voice cutting directly through your ribs, and into your heart. It is an amazing feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Regina Spektor is a singer worth listening to. And hearing well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening in the last days to Regina Spektor. Highly recommend all her songs. So far my favorite is &#8220;Apr?s Moi&#8221; from &#8220;Begin to Hope&#8221; &#8211; may be because she sings a little bit in Russian there, or may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=1224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,12,22,25],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-in-english","category-ted","category-usa","tag-regina-spektor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}