[1] Spektor was born in Berlin in 1928 and her parents were Lithuanians that escaped the pogroms.
The three of them moved out of Berlin to Paris shortly before Kristallnacht started, where Spektor went to school until the summer of 1939 when the family moved to the United States on the SS Washington.
Spektor attended Sarah Lawrence College, Mannes School of Music, and Juilliard School, later performing in Off-Broadway plays and recording songs for LPs and CDs.
The Atlantic Opera Singers was started by Spektor and lasted for 10 years.
[3] She wrote a feminist musical titled The Housewives' Cantata, which had a playbook published in 1994 by Georgina Press.