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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11,
1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk- Suzanne Vega
inspired music.[1][2] Vega's music career spans 40
years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s she released
four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the
UK, "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center",
"Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill".

"Tom's Diner", which was originally released as

an a cappella recording on Vega's second studio
album, Solitude Standing (1987), was remixed in
1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo
DNA with her vocals, and it became a Top 10 hit
in five countries. The original a cappella
recording of the song was used as a test during the
creation of the MP3 format.[3] The role of her
song in the development of the MP3 compression
prompted Vega to be given the title of "The
Mother of the MP3".[4]
Vega performing in 2016
Vega has released ten studio albums; her most Background information
recent release is the studio album Flying With Birth name Suzanne Nadine Peck
Angels, released in 2025.
Born July 11, 1959
Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Early life Origin New York City, U.S.

Genres Alternative rock · folk rock
Suzanne Nadine Vega was born on July 11, 1959, Occupations Singer-songwriter · musician
in Santa Monica, California.[5] Her parents
Instruments Vocals · guitar
divorced soon after her birth.[6] Her mother, Pat
Years active 1982–present
Vega (née Schumacher), is a computer systems
analyst of German-Swedish heritage. Her father, Labels Cooking Vinyl · A&M · Blue Note
Richard Peck, is of English, Irish and Scottish · Amanuensis Productions
origin.[7] Her stepfather, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Spouses Mitchell Froom
also known as Ed Vega, was a writer and teacher (m. 1995; div. 1998)
from Puerto Rico.[8] When Vega was two and a Paul Mills
half, her family moved to New York City. She grew (m. 2006)
up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side.
[9] She was not aware that Peck was her biological Website suzannevega.com (http://suzann
father until she was nine years old. Vega and Peck evega.com)
met for the first time in her late 20s, and they
remain in contact.[10]

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She attended the High School of Performing

Arts[11] (since renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia
High School) where she studied modern dance
and graduated in 1977.

Career

1980s
While majoring in English literature at Barnard College,[12] she performed in small venues in
Greenwich Village, where she was a regular contributor to Jack Hardy's Monday night
songwriters' group at the Cornelia Street Cafe and had some of her first songs published on Fast
Folk anthology albums.[13] In 1984, she received a major label recording contract, making her
one of the first 'Fast Folk' artists to break out on a major label.

Vega's self-titled debut studio album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics in the
U.S.;[9] it reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. Produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve
Addabbo, the songs feature Vega's acoustic guitar in straightforward arrangements. A video was
released for the album's song "Marlene on the Wall", which went into MTV and VH1's rotations.
During this period Vega also wrote lyrics for two songs ("Lightning" and "Freezing") on Songs
from Liquid Days (1986) by composer Philip Glass.[14]

Vega's song "Left of Center" co-written with Steve Addabbo for the 1986 John Hughes film
Pretty in Pink reached No. 32 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986.[15]

Her next studio album, Solitude Standing (1987), garnered critical and commercial success,
selling over one million copies in the U.S.[16] It includes the international hit single "Luka",
which is written about, and from the point of view of, an abused child.[11] (Not until many years
later did Vega reveal the song dealt with the abuse she herself had suffered from her stepfather.
[17]) While continuing a focus on Vega's acoustic guitar, the music of her second album is more

strongly pop-oriented and features fuller arrangements. Following the success of the album, in
1989 Vega became the first female artist to headline the Glastonbury Festival.[18] Vega
performed her set whilst wearing a bulletproof vest, her band having received death threats
from an obsessed fan ahead of the festival.[18]

The acappella "Tom's Diner" from Solitude Standing became a hit in 1990, having been remixed
by two British dance producers under the name DNA.[11] The track was originally a bootleg,
until Vega allowed DNA to release it through her record company, and it became her biggest hit.

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

In 1992, she released her fourth studio album 99.9F°, which mixed folk and pop music with
electronic elements.[19] This record was awarded Gold status by the RIAA in recognition of
selling over 500,000 copies in the U.S.[16] The single "Blood Makes Noise" from this album

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peaked at number-one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. Vega later married the album's
producer, Mitchell Froom.[19]

Her fifth studio album, Nine Objects of Desire, was released in 1996.[11] The music varies
between a frugal, simple style and the industrial production of 99.9F°. This album contains
"Caramel", featured in the movie The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), and later the trailer for
the movie Closer (2004). A song not included on that album, "Woman on the Tier", was
featured on the soundtrack of the movie Dead Man Walking (1996).

In 1997 she took a singing part on the concept album Heaven & Hell, a musical interpretation of
the seven deadly sins by her colleague Joe Jackson, with whom she had already collaborated in
1986 on "Left of Center" from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack (with Vega singing and Jackson
playing piano).[20]

In 1999, Avon Books published Vega's book The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writings of
Suzanne Vega, a volume of poems, lyrics, essays and journalistic pieces.[21]

2000s
In September 2001, Vega released a new studio album
entitled Songs in Red and Gray. Three songs deal with
Vega's divorce from her first husband, Mitchell Froom.

At the memorial concert for her brother Tim Vega in

December 2002, Vega began her role as the subject of
the direct-cinema documentary, Some Journey,
directed by Christopher Seufert of Mooncusser Films.
The documentary has not been completed.

Underground hip hop duo Felt named a track "Suzanne

Vega" on their studio album Felt: A Tribute to Christina
Ricci, released in 2002.[22]
Vega onstage, 2008
In 2003, the 21-song greatest hits compilation album
Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released.
(The UK version of Retrospective included an eight-song bonus CD as well as a DVD containing
12 songs). In the same year she was invited by Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist Bill Frisell
to play at the Century of Song concerts at the famed Ruhrtriennale in Germany.

In 2003, she hosted the American Public Media radio series American Mavericks, about 20th
century American composers, which received the Peabody Award for Excellence in
Broadcasting.[23][24]

On August 3, 2006, Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live in the Internet-
based virtual world, Second Life. The event was hosted by John Hockenberry of public radio's
The Infinite Mind.

On September 17, 2006, she performed in Central Park, as part of a benefit concert for the Save
Darfur Coalition.[25] During the concert she highlighted her support for Amnesty International,
of which she has been a member since 1988.[26]

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In early October 2006, Vega participated in the Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) in Olomouc, the
Czech Republic, the oldest festival of documentary films in Europe, in which she appeared as a
main guest. She was invited there as the subject of the documentary film by director
Christopher Seufert, that had a test screening at the festival. At the end of the festival she
performed her classic songs and added one brand new piece called "New York Is a Woman".

Vega is also interviewed in the book Everything Is Just a Bet which was published in Czech in
October 2006. The book contains 12 interview transcriptions from the talk show called Stage
Talks that regularly runs in the Švandovo divadlo (Švandovo Theatre) in Prague. Vega
introduced the book to the audience of the Švandovo divadlo (Švandovo Theatre), and together
with some other Czech celebrities gave a signing session.

She signed a new recording contract with Blue Note Records in the spring of 2006, and released
Beauty & Crime on July 17, 2007. The album, produced by Jimmy Hogarth, won a Grammy
Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Her contract was not renewed and she was
released in June 2008.[27]

In 2007, Vega followed the lead of numerous other mainstream artists and released her track
"Pornographer's Dream" as podsafe. The song spent two weeks at number-one during 2007 and
finished as the No. 11[28] hit of the year on the PMC Top10's annual countdown. In 2015, Vega
joined The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent
musicians' careers.[29] [30] [31] She was also a judge for the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
and 13th Independent Music Awards.[32]

In 2008, fire at a Universal Music Group vault in Los Angeles County resulted in the loss or
damage of some Vega recordings.[33]

2010s
A partial cover version of her song "Tom's Diner" was
used to introduce the 2010 British movie 4.3.2.1., with
its lyrics largely rewritten to echo the plot. This musical
hybrid was released as "Keep Moving". Vega
participated in the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
studio album Dark Night of the Soul (2010). She wrote
both melody and lyrics for her song, which is titled
"Man Who Played God", inspired by a biography of
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Vega sang lead vocals on
the song "Now I Am an Arsonist" with singer-songwriter
Jonathan Coulton on his studio album, Artificial Heart
(2011).

Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue,[34] both for

artistic and commercial (and control) reasons,[35][36] in
the Close-up series. Vol. 1 (Love Songs) and Vol. 2
(People & Places) appeared in 2010 while Vol. 3 (States Vega at Union Chapel, London, 2015,
of Being) was released in July 2011[37] followed by Vol. improvising by using the pulpit
4 (Songs of Family) in September 2012. Volumes 2, 3
and 4 of the Close-Up albums included previously

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unrecorded material; Volumes 2 and 3 each included one new collaboratively written song,
while Volume 4 included three songs that Vega had written years earlier, but had not previously
gotten around to recording. In all, Vega's Close-Up series features 60 re-recorded songs and five
new compositions, representing about three-quarters of her lifetime songwriting output.

While performing live, Vega and long-term collaborator Gerry Leonard began to introduce a
number of new songs into the setlist, including the live favorite "I Never Wear White". Over the
course of a year, the songs were completed and recorded in a live-studio setting with the help of
a number of guests. Produced by Leonard, Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles was
released in February 2014.[38] It was her first album of new material in seven years and became
Vega's first studio album to reach the UK Top 40 since 1992, peaking at No. 37.

Vega's ninth studio album, Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers,
was released on October 14, 2016.[39][40]

2020s
In February and March 2023, Vega was to tour the UK.[41]

On May 2, 2025, Vega released the album "Flying With Angels".[42]

Songwriting
At the age of nine she began to write poetry. She was encouraged to do so by her stepfather.[43]
It took her three years to write her first song, "Brother Mine", which was finished at the age of
14.[44] It was first published on Close-Up Vol. 4, Songs of Family (2012), along with her other
early song, "The Silver Lady".[43]

Vega has not learned to read musical notation; she sees the melody as a shape and chords as
colors. She focuses on lyrics and melodic ideas; for advanced features – like intros or bridges –
she relies on other artists with whom she works.[43] Most of her albums, except the first one,
were made in such cooperation.[45]

Vega finishes 80% of the songs she starts writing.[44] She got the melody of "Tom's Diner" while
walking down Broadway in New York. She was thinking of French New Wave films.[46]

The most important artistic influences on her work come from Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and
Leonard Cohen. Some other important artists for her are Paul Simon and Laura Nyro.[44]

Guitars
Suzanne Vega currently plays Furch guitars, a brand made in the Czech Republic[47] and was
the focus of a win-a-guitar competition run by Furch in 2021.[48] In the mid-1980s she played
Guild guitars,[49] and in the 1990s she played Yamaha and Taylor guitars at different times.

Theater

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Vega and Duncan Sheik wrote a play Carson McCullers Talks About Love, about the life of the
writer Carson McCullers. In the play directed by Kay Matschullat, which premiered in 2011,
Vega alternates between monologue and songs.[50][51][52] Vega and Sheik were nominated for
Outstanding Music in a Play for the 57th annual Drama Desk awards.[53]

The album Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, based on this play,
was released in 2016.[39][40] Vega considers it to be a third version, because it's rewritten, and
she made the first version in college.[10]

In early 2020, Vega played the role of "Band Leader" in an off-Broadway musical based on the
1969 movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Scott Elliott and produced at The New
Group in New York City. She replaced Sheik, who wrote the show's music and co-wrote the
lyrics with Amanda Green.[54] In his review for The New York Times, critic Ben Brantley called
the "brandy-voiced" Vega "a delightful, smoothly sardonic presence."[55]

Amanuensis Productions
Vega established her own recording label after the 2008 financial crisis. From that point, she
stopped working for Blue Note Records and started thinking about re-recording her back
catalog with new arrangements and gaining control over her works (which she eventually did
with the 2014 Close-Up Series).[43]

The name "Amanuensis Productions" was meant as a private joke about "servant" (amanuensis)
owning the "masters" (recording masters), also a pun at A&M still legally owning her previous
master tapes.[45]

Running the label proved to be harder than she expected. In 2015, it barely "broke even", but
new licenses were coming for "Tom's Diner".[56]

Personal life
On March 17, 1995, Vega married Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer (who
played on and produced 99.9F° and Nine Objects of Desire). They have a daughter, Ruby Froom
(born July 8, 1994). The alternative rock band Soul Coughing's debut studio album Ruby Vroom
(1994) was named for her, with Vega's approval.[57] Vega and Froom separated and divorced in
1998.

On February 11, 2006, Vega married Paul Mills, a lawyer and poet, "22 years after he first
proposed to her."[58]

Beginning in 2010, Ruby has occasionally performed with her mother on tour.[59][60][61][62]

Vega practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of the American branch of the worldwide
Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.[63]

Awards and nominations

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Year Awards Work Category Result

1985 Top Billboard 200 Artist - Nominated

Female[64][65] Nominated

Herself Top Billboard 200 Artist Nominated

Top Hot 100 Artist Nominated

Billboard Music Awards
Top Hot 100 Artist - Female Nominated
1987
Top Billboard 200 Album Nominated
Solitude Standing
Top Pop Compact Disk Nominated

"Luka" Top Hot 100 Song Nominated

NME Awards Best Female Singer Won

Pollstar Concert Industry Herself

Small Hall Tour of the Year Nominated
Awards

ASCAP Pop Music

Most Performed Song[66] Won
Awards

Best Female Video Won

MTV Video Music
1988 Breakthrough Video Nominated
Awards
"Luka" Best Cinematography Nominated

Song of the Year Nominated

Record of the Year Nominated

Best Female Pop Vocal

Nominated
Grammy Awards Performance

Best Contemporary Folk

Nominated
1990 Days of Open Hand Recording

Best Album Package Won

Billboard Music Video

1992 "Blood Makes Noise" Best Pop/Rock Female Video Nominated
Awards

New York Music Awards 99.9F° Best Rock Album Won

1993
Hit Awards (Hong Kong) Top Female Artist[67] Nominated

1996 Žebřík Music Awards Best International Female[68] Nominated

Herself
2003 Glamour Awards Woman of the Year Won

2004 Peabody Awards Entertainment Won

Best Engineered Album, Non-

2008 Grammy Awards Beauty & Crime Won
Classical

Close-Up Vol. 1, Love

2010 New York Music Awards Best Pop/Rock Compilation Won
Songs

Carson McCullers Talks

2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Music in a Play Nominated
About Love

Discography
Studio albums

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Suzanne Vega (1985)

Solitude Standing (1987)
Days of Open Hand (1990)
99.9F° (1992)
Nine Objects of Desire (1996)
Songs in Red and Gray (2001)
Beauty & Crime (2007)
Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles (2014)
Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers (2016)
Flying with Angels (2025)
Live albums

Live in London 1986 (1986)

Sessions at West 54th (1997)
Solitude Standing: Live at the Barbican (2013)
Live at the Speakeasy (2014)
An Evening of New York Songs and Stories (2020)

Books
The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega (1999) ISBN 9780380973538.

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External links
Official website (http://www.suzannevega.com)
Suzanne Vega (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000754251) at AllMusic
Suzanne Vega (https://suzannevega.bandcamp.com/) at Bandcamp
Suzanne Vega (https://www.discogs.com/artist/41182) discography at Discogs
Suzanne Vega (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891916/) at IMDb
Stories told by Suzanne Vega (https://themoth.org/storytellers/suzanne-vega) at The Moth
Suzanne Vega recording of 'Streets of Laredo' (http://pioneersforacure.org/artist/suzanne-ve
ga/) for Pioneers for a Cure

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