Suzanne Vega (natural July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer. She was natural inside Santa Monica, California, but, at the age of of these moved using her mother, the computer systems analyst, & her stepfather, the Puerto Rican writer, to New York City, where she grew higher around a socially problematic metropolitan area (Spanish Harlem & the Upper West Side). At a age of nine she began to write poems; she wrote her first song at 14. Late she attended a New York High School of Performing Arts (the school seen in the film musical Fame), where she exposed modern dance.

Music, however, was her foremost love. When majoring around English literature at Columbia University's Barnard College, she performed around microscopic venues in Greenwich Village. Around 1984 she received a major label record contract.

Vega's eponymous debut album was released inside 1985 and was well received by critics. A songs come straightforward & oppose a "bigger is better" ethos of the mid-1980s. It is non average protest songs, but come introspective, in the manner of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s, such as Leonard Cohen.

Her second-year effort, Solitude Standing (1987), contained two successful singles: "Tom's Diner" (a hit later remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, not to be confused with the no wave band DNA) and "Luka". "Luka" is written from either a point of learn from of an maltreated kid—rare for the pop hit. A music is other strongly pop-oriented equated using her foremost album.

Vega's third album, Days of Open Hand (1990) signified a vary a la mode: a music became supplementary experimental & a lyrics expressed greater emotion. A album lacked hit lone lesson & is better considered as a whole.

Within 1992 she released a album 99.9F° ("ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit degrees"). It consists of an eclectic mixture of folk music, dance beats and industrial music. This gives the sunny quality to the act within counterpoint to the last album. A songs come short & a lyric style compressed.

A fifth album, Nine Objects of Desire, was released inside 1996. a music varies between a economical, elementary style & the industrial production of 99.9F°. This album contains "Caramel", featured in the movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs and, later, a trailer for the movie Closer. "Dead Man Walking" was featured on the soundtrack of the movie of the same name.

September 2001 saw the release of the freshly album, Songs In Red and Gray. A lyrics treat sustaining Vega's divorce from record producer Mitchell Froom.

At a memorial concert for the dying of her brother Timothy Vega inside December, 2002 she began as the subject of a cinema verite documentary, Some Journeying, by documental director Christopher Seufert. This is rumoured to become freed around 2006.

Around 2003, the 21-song greatest hits compilation Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released. (A UK version of Retrospective included an eight-song bonus Video likewise as a DVD containing twelve songs.)

She is planning to last into the recording studios inside a fall 2005, by owning the aim of releasing a fresh studio album in early 2006.

Vegthe has a girl, Ruby Froom.

Discography
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 Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega, 2003 (Featuring several non-album tracks)

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

|US Hot 100 |US Modern Rock |US Mainstream Rock |UK |- | 1990 | "Book of Dreams" | - | #8 | - | - | Times of Open Hand |}

Trivia
Around computing circles, Suzanne Vega is known for her song Tom's Diner, which was used as the reference track in an early trial of the MP3 compression system.