# Ronnie and Regina Spektor related? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873 "2007-05-12T22:42:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/1 "2007-05-12T22:42:19Z")
Are they? Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/2 "2007-05-12T23:01:10Z")
Ronnie _Spector_ was married to Phil Spector. Her birth name was Veronica Yvette Bennett. This Regina Spektor (never heard of her until I looked her up) is apparently Russian. I think the answer is no. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/3 "2007-05-12T23:52:03Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist] Ronnie _Spector_ was married to Phil Spector. Her birth name was Veronica Yvette Bennett. This Regina Spektor (never heard of her until I looked her up) is apparently Russian. I think the answer is no. [/QUOTE] Thanks. Phil, the producer, is who I actually remembered but I couldn’t recall his first name. But yeah, it doesn’t seem likely they would be related. Her music is pretty heavily produced, though. I think he’s likely to busy right now to work with her anyway. Extra points; How did you (they) manage to get a town named San Pablo in Minnesota? I looked it up on mapquest. I got redirected to Swanville. Hey, I just remembered google earth. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/4 "2007-05-13T00:48:00Z")
I hope you are kidding, or else I really will have to change my location. I literally posted an explanation in another thread a minute ago. (it’s Saint Paul in Spanish) How many points do I get??? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/5 "2007-05-13T00:57:42Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist] I hope you are kidding, or else I really will have to change my location. I literally posted an explanation in another thread a minute ago. (it’s Saint Paul in Spanish) How many points do I get??? 🙂 [/QUOTE] 😃 No, I’m not kidding. I don’t expect to see a lot of spanish name places in your neck of the woods. I don’t think Spain spent a lot of time in Minnesota (or would that be the other way around). There’s a San Pablo here in California about two miles from my house. Where’s that other thread? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/6 "2007-05-13T01:04:24Z")
Now I get it, I think. _You_ translated Saint Paul to the spanish San Pablo. Just for your location. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/7 "2007-05-13T01:13:49Z")
🙂 I was watching Univision this morning and saw it in a commercial: Minneapolis y San Pablo. I thought it was funny (for some reason). ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-and-regina-spektor-related/403873/8 "2007-05-13T01:30:01Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist] 🙂 I was watching Univision this morning and saw it in a commercial: Minneapolis y San Pablo. I thought it was funny (for some reason). [/QUOTE] I’ve noticed that they (Univision) translate US city names to Spanish. Nuevo York, for example. We do say “Mexico City”, don’t we.