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Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s, she released four singles that entered the Top 40 on the UK singles chart, "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill".
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culture · American singer-songwriter (born 1959) · singer-songwriter · singer · guitarist · playwright · writer · recording artist · composer · musician · also Suzanne Vega, Vega
Born 11 July 1959 · Q236112
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“So you get the sense if you’re not a great genius maybe your mother won’t love you. She wasn’t going to let that go, and if that wrecked your marriage, well then that’s just too bad.”
“pretending to be other people”
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Released album “Einstein on the Beach”.
Published video “Suzanne Vega - Chambermaid (Official Animated Lyric Video)”.
Published video “Suzanne Vega - ‘Chambermaid’ live on Later… with Jools Holland on BBC”.
Published video “Suzanne Vega - Tom’s Diner (Live on Tour in Paris) | Tour starts tonight!💫 See you soon❤️🔥”.
Published video “Then & Now. 39 years of Left of Center — happy anniversary to this one❤️🔥 Tour starts next week!🤘🏻”.
Published video “Interview with WFUV New York Radio (Cavalcade 10th Anniversary)”.
Published video “Wishing a happy birthday to Bob Dylan! 🥰🎂🥳 whose songs keep inspiring songwriters everywhere💫”.
Published video “Suzanne Vega - Then & Now • 40 Years”.
Published video “My new album is finally out now😎🌤️🪽”.
Published video “Suzanne Vega - Love Thief (Official Audio)”.
Published video “Suzanne Vega - Lucinda (Official Audio)”.
Vega released her tenth studio album Flying with Angels
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Released album “Flying With Angels”.
Released album “Back in Old Amsterdam”.
Released album “Close-Up Extras”.
Released album “Silent Sunrise (Live '85)”.
Released album “An Evening of New York Songs and Stories”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega's teenage obsessions: 'Taxi Driver captured something awful but made it beautiful'
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega: ‘I headlined Glastonbury in a bullet-proof vest’
Released album “5 Classic Albums”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega: how we made Tom's Diner
Released album “Lover, Beloved: Songs From an Evening With Carson McCullers”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega: ‘It’s taken me a while to say, You are what you are, it’s fine’
Released album “Live at The Bottom Line 1986: Live Radio Broadcast”.
Released album “Warfield Theater, San Francisco, August 6th, 1987”.
It barely "broke even", but new licenses were coming for "Tom's Diner"
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Released album “Close-Up Series”.
Released album “Live at the Speakeasy”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega – review
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega: Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles – review
Released album “Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles”.
Vega wrote the foreword for the book about singer, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen
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Released album “Close-Up Vol 1-4 (Bonus Content)”.
Released album “Solitude Standing: Live at the Barbican”.
Released album “Close-Up, Volume 4: Songs of Family”.
Released album “Close-Up, Volume 3: States of Being”.
Vega alternates between monologue and songs
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Released album “2010-11-14: Housing Works Bookstore, New York City, NY, USA”.
Released album “Close-Up, Volume 2: People & Places”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega: Close-Up Vol 1, Love Songs | CD review
Released album “Close-Up, Volume 1: Love Songs”.
Ruby Froom has occasionally performed with her mother on tour
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Released album “1985-10-14: Uni Theatre, Bremen, Germany”.
Released ep “iTunes Festival: London 2008”.
Released album “2007-10-14: Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany”.
A fire that broke out on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles County, California resulted in the loss or damage of some Vega recordings
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Released album “2007-10-28: Studio im. Agnieszki Osieckiej, Polskie Radio”.
Released album “Colour Collection”.
Released ep “Rhapsody Original”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Released album “Beauty & Crime”.
Vega followed the lead of numerous other mainstream artists and released her track "Pornographer's Dream" as podsafe
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Performed in Central Park, as part of a benefit concert for the Save Darfur Coalition
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Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live in the Internet-based virtual world Second Life
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Vega married Paul Mills, a lawyer and poet, "22 years after he first proposed to her"
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Released album “Live at Duo Music Exchange”.
Released album “Live at the Stephen Talkhouse”.
The Guardian: Suzanne Vega, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Their paths crossed again, and he moved back to New York to refocus on his poetry, and the following year the couple married
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Released album “Live at Montreux 2004”.
Released album “Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega”.
The 21-song greatest hits compilation album Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released
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Hosted the American Public Media radio series American Mavericks, about 20th century American composers, which received the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting
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Released album “Les Inrocks Live at Le Bataclan Paris 2002”.
Released album “Songs in Red and Gray”.
Released album “1988-10- 13: BBC Radio Theatre, London, England”.
Avon Books published Vega's book The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writings of Suzanne Vega, a volume of poems, lyrics, essays and journalistic pieces
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Released album “Tried and True: The Best of Suzanne Vega”.
Vega and Froom separated and divorced in 1998.
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Wrote the book The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega
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Released album “1993-05-24: Blue Box: Westwood One”.
Released album “Sessions at West 54th”.
Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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"
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Released album “Nine Objects of Desire”.
Vega married Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer (who played on and produced 99
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Released album “Live at Tom's Diner”.
Released album “100° Fahrenheit in Montreux”.
Released album “1993-05-18: Zürich 1993: Albisgüetli, Zürich, Switzerland”.
Released album “Making Noise: The 99.9 F° World Tour”.
Released album “Dancing Girl”.
Released album “Solitude Songs”.
Released album “99.9 F°”.
Released album “Tom’s Album”.
Released album “Days of Open Hand”.
Having been remixed by two English electronic music producers under the name DNA
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As a dance track by English electronic music producers DNA with her vocals, and became a Top 10 hit in five countries
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Vega became the first female artist to headline the Glastonbury Festival
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Released album “Live USA”.
Released album “Cracking (Live in San Francisco)”.
Released album “Solitude Standing”.
Released album “Live in London 1986”.
Released album “My Name Is Suzanne Vega Live”.
Was interviewed by Lou Reed on 120 Minutes to promote a Greenpeace benefit concert, which led to them becoming friends, and after Reed's death in 2013, Vega has covered "Walk on the Wild Side" at all of her live conc
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By A&M Records and was well received by critics in the U
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Released album “Suzanne Vega”.
Received a major label recording contract, making her one of the first Fast Folk artists to break out on a major label
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In 1977, at the age of 27, Mills, then a young poet who went by "Poez", dated Vega for a time, but when she was ambivalent about his marriage proposal, he moved to California to become a lawyer.
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At the age of 27, Mills, then a young poet who went by "Poez", dated Vega for a time, but when she was ambivalent about his marriage proposal, he moved to California to become a lawyer
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Born 1959-07-11.
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