Regina Spektor, author of such popular albums in the 2000s as ‘Begin To Hope’ or ‘Far’, has lived an incident this Saturday when she tried to give a concert in Oregon. According to the description of the attendees on YouTube, someone tried to take the stage to the shout of “free Palestine”, being invited to leave.
The international tension is at the maximum, due to the thousands of people who can die of hunger in the Gaza Strip, after the more than 60,000 who have already died in one way or another, in the last couple of years, and Regina Spektor is of Jewish and Russian origin, so it takes time in the spotlight, as Nme.
The singer responded to the proclamations: «You are shouting at a Jew. I don’t know what he thinks he does. Thanks to security personnel, we had a bad time when I said “Shalom Aleichem”, which means “that peace is with you” in Hebrew.
Spektor showed his anger because his concerts “are not the comments section of a website”: “I thought this was different from the Internet. This is real life ». Someone from the audience broke him then: “I am seeing children die and that hurts.” Before what the artist replied: «I think you should leave because this is not the place for that conversation. I am a real person who has come here to play music. If someone else wants to leave, this is the time. Does anyone else want to leave? You can”.
The singer recalled her migrant status: «The only reason I speak English is because I came here (United States) to escape this shit. I speak English just because I come from a country where Jews were treated as strangers, and here I am also being treated as strange, and it is shit. It would be good that someone from my family’s generation did not have to go to another country to learn another language and be able to stay, and have a pleasant life.
The concert video shows a clearly divided audience, among whom he thinks, who laughs, who encourages Regina without receiving too much support and who decides to leave the concert. Most simply seem not to know what to do.
According to Setlisf.fm, the incident occurred during track 11 of a concert that included up to 21 songs, so we understand that the show ended normally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkil-2f6sk
