Regina Spektor at the Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall, LondonA band of all-female punk demonstrators, Pussy Riot, are currently languishing in jail in Russia after a guerrilla gig in a church protesting against Russia's strongman president, Vladimir Putin. Their imprisonment has become an international cause célèbre.What if, you wonder, Regina Spektor had grown up in her native Russia? Might she have ended up in Pussy Riot? As it is, Spektor moved to the Bronx as a child, and became a kind of arty-boho heir to Tori Amos. Spektor...

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