Suzanne Vega

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Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer best known for her folk-inspired music.

"Marlene on the Wall," "Left of Center," "Luka," and "No Cheap Thrill" were among the four singles that made it to the top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s, including "Marlene on the Wall," "Left of Center," "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill"; she rose to fame in the mid 1980s and 1990s.

"Tom's Diner," which was originally released as a cappella recording on Vega's second album, Solitude Standing, was reimagined in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with Vega as the featured artist, and it became a Top ten hit in over five countries.

During the introduction of the MP3 format, the song was used as a demonstration. Vega has nine studio albums to date, the most notable of which is Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, which was released in 2016.

Early life

Suzanne Nadine Vega was born in Santa Monica, California, on July 11, 1959. Her parents divorced soon after her birth. Pat Vega (née Schumacher), her mother, is a computer systems analyst with a German-Swedish descent. Richard Peck, her father, is of British origins. Edgardo Vega Yunqué, a writer and tutor from Puerto Rico, was also known as Ed Vega. When Vega was two and a half years old, her family and her family immigrated to New York City. She grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side. Peck was not aware she was her biological father until she was nine years old. Vega and her father met for the first time in her late 20s, and they remain in touch.

She attended the High School of Performing Arts, now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, where she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.

Personal life

Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer, married Vega on March 17, 1995 (who later achieved 99.9F° and Nine Objects of Desire). Ruby Froom, their daughter, was born on July 8, 1994. Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom album was named for her by the band's permission, with Vega's blessing. In 1998, Vega and Froom were divorced and separated.

Paul Mills, a lawyer and poet, married Vega on February 11, 2006, "22 years since he first proposed to her."

Ruby has appeared on tour with her mother from 2010 to 2015.

Vega is a member of the Soka Gakkai International's American branch.

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Career

She appeared in small venues in Greenwich Village, where she was a regular contributor to Jack Hardy's Monday night songwriters' group at the Cornelia Street Café and had some of her first songs released on Fast Folk anthology albums while majoring in English literature at Barnard College. She received a major label recording deal in 1984, making her one of the first 'Fast Folk' artists to break out on a major label.

Vega's self-titled debut album was released in 1985 and was well-received in the United States by journalists; it also received platinum status in the United Kingdom. The songs were produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve Addabbo and feature Vega's acoustic guitar in simple arrangements. A video of Marlene on the Wall, an album of songs, was released, and MTV and VH1's rotations followed it. Vega wrote lyrics for two songs ("Lightning" and "Freezing") on Songs from Liquid Days by composer Philip Glass during this time.

For the 1986 John Hughes film Pretty in Pink, Vega's song "Left of Center" co-written with Steve Addabbo appeared on the charts. In 1986, the United Kingdom Singles Chart ranked 32 on the UK Singles Chart.

Solitude Standing (1987), her first attempt, received critical and commercial success, selling over one million copies in the United States. It includes the international hit song "Luka," which is about, and from the viewpoint of an abused child, which is atypical topic for a pop hit at the time. The music is more focused on Vega's acoustic guitar, with fuller arrangements. Following the success of the album, Vega became the first female artist to headline the Glastonbury Festival in 1989. In addition, Vega's set was also notable for her appearance despite wearing a bulletproof vest, and her band was also attacked by an obsessive fan ahead of the festival.

Solitude Standing's cappella "Tom's Diner" was a hit in 1990, after being reimagined by two British dancers under the name DNA. The track was originally a bootleg, before Vega allowed DNA to be released through her record company, and it became her biggest hit.

Days of Open Hand (1990), Vega's third album, continued in the style of her first two albums.

She made the album 99.9F° in 1992. It's made up of a mash-up of folk music, dance beats, and industrial music. The RIAA has given this record Gold status in recognition of its exporting more than 500,000 copies in the United States. On Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, the single "Blood Makes Noise" from this album debuted at number one. Mitchell Froom, the album's producer, was later married by Vega.

Nine Objects of Desire, her fifth album, was released in 1996. The music of a frugal, simple style, and a 99.9F° industrial production differs. This album includes "Caramel," which is included in the film The Truth About Cats & Dogs, as well as the trailer for the movie Closer. On the soundtrack of the film Dead Man Walking, a song that wasn't on that album, "Woman on the Tier."

She appeared on the concept album Heaven and Hell in 1997, her sister Joe Jackson's musical interpretation of the seven deadly sins she encountered on the Pretty in Pink album (with Vega singing and Jackson playing piano).

Avon Books' book The Passionate Eye: Suzanne Vega's Collected Writings, a collection of poems, lyrics, essays, and journalistic excerpts, was published in 1999.

Vega's Songs in Red and Gray was released in September 2001. Vega's estrangement from her first husband, Mitchell Froom, is the subject of three songs.

Vega began her role as the protagonist of Mooncusser Films' direct-cinema film Some Journey, directed by Christopher Seufert. The documentary hasn't been finished.

The underground hip hop pair "Suzanne Vega" on their album Felt: A Tribute to Christina Ricci, which was released in 2002.

Suzanne Vega's Best Hits compilation, which was released in 2003, was released. (The Retrospective version in the United Kingdom featured an eight-song bonus CD as well as a DVD containing 12 songs). Bill Frisell, a Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist, had been invited by Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist Bill Frisell to appear at the Century of Song concerts at Ruhrtriennale, Germany, in the same year.

She hosted the American Public Media radio series American Mavericks, a twentieth-century American composers, which received the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting in 2003.

Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live in the internet-based virtual world on August 3, 2006. The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry was the event's host.

She appeared in Central Park on September 17, 2006, as part of a Save Darfur Coalition benefit concert. During the festival, she spoke out in favour of Amnesty International, of which she has been a member since 1988.

Vega appeared in Academia Film Olomouc (AFO), the oldest festival of documentary films in Europe in which she appeared as a principal guest in early October 2006. She was invited to attend the festival as the subject of director Christopher Seufert's documentary film, which had a test screening. She performed her classic songs at the festival and unveiled one at a time called "New York Is a Woman."

Vega was also profiled in the book Everything Is Just a Bet, which was released in Czech in October 2006. The book contains 12 transcripts from the talk show Stage Talks, which regularly runs in Prague's vandovo divadlo (vandovo Theatre). Vega introduced the book to the audience of the vandovo divadlo (vandovo Theatre), and the book was signed by the author and several other Czech celebrities at a signing session.

In the spring of 2006, she signed a new recording deal with Blue Note Records, and she first appeared on Beauty & Crime on July 17, 2007. Jimmy Hogarth's album was named Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical on Grammy Award. Her employment was not renewed, and she was fired in June 2008.

Vega took the example of many other mainstream artists in 2007 and released her track "Pornographer's Dream" as podsafe. During 2007, the band spent two weeks at number one and then finished as the No. 1 in the world. On the year's countdown, the PMC Top10 has been ranked 11th. Vega was on the 14th Annual Independent Music Awards judging jury in 2015 to support independent musicians' careers. She was also a judge for the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 13th Independent Music Awards.

In 2008, a fire at a Universal Music Group vault in Los Angeles County resulted in the loss or destruction of some Vega recordings.

A partial cover version of her song Tom's Diner was used to debut the 2010 British film 4.3.2.1, with its lyrics largely rewritten to match the plot's plot. "Keep Moving" was the musical term coined by the time. Vega was involved in the Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch project, which was part of the Danger Mouse/David Lynch group Dark Night of the Soul. Both melody and lyrics for her song, titled "The Man Who Played God," is based on Pablo Picasso's biography. Vega performed lead vocals on the song "Now I Am an Arsonist" with singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton on his 2011 album, Artificial Heart.

In the Close-up series, Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue, both for artistic and corporate (and control) reasons. Vol. Vol. 1 (Love Songs) and Vol. Vol. 2 (People & Places) appeared in 2010 when Vol. vs. In July 2011, Vol. 3 (States of Being) was announced, followed by Vol. 4 (Songs of Family) in September 2012. Some of the Close-Up albums featured previously unreleased music; Volumes 2 and 3 each included one new collaboratively written song; Volume 4 contained three songs that Vega had written years before, but no one had gotten around to recording. All in all, Vega's Close-Up collection features 60 re-recorded songs and five new compositions, totaling about three-quarters of her lifetime songwriting output.

Vega and long-time collaborator Gerry Leonard began to perform live, including the live favorite "I Never Wear White." The songs were created and recorded in a live-studio environment with the support of a number of guests over the course of a year. Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles was published in February 2014. Leonard's story Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles was published in February 2014. It was her first album of new music in seven years and Vega's first studio album since 1992, peaking at No. 8 in the UK Top 40. 37.

Lover, Beloved: Songs From an Evening with Carson McCullers was released on October 14, 2016.

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