I got my first Boston Globe story! It's a profile of the musician Regina Spektor.
Back when I lived in Manhattan's East Village, I heard her name quite a bit. A piano-playing rocker, she was playing out in the bars and establishing herself.
I saw she was playing the Capitol Theatre outside NYC earlier this year, and got tickets.
Spektor, who emigrated to the Bronx from the Soviet Union as a kid, was all alone onstage. She played piano on most songs, and picked up a guitar for a few. She delivers offbeat rock. She spoke of the war in Ukraine with a heartfelt address.
I saw her tour brings her to Martha's Vineyard in late August, so I pitched the Boston Globe a story. I had no contact there, but an editor surprised me by saying yes to my pitch.
“The idea that so much beauty and so much history has just been turned to rubble, it’s just very painful,” she says. “And they’re sending young people who don’t know better from one country to the other, to die and to perpetrate atrocities. Everybody suffers except for the people who are actually perpetrating these crimes.”
The rest of the profile is a bit happier, with her memories of playing Boston, and visiting the Vineyard as a kid, and her thoughts on getting back to the island many years later.
[photo credit Shervin Lainez]
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