Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American singer-songwriter best known for her folk-inspired music.
37 Facts About Suzanne Vega
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The role of her song in the development of the MP3 compression prompted Suzanne Vega to be given the title of "The Mother of the MP3".
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Suzanne Vega has released nine studio albums to date, the latest of which is Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, released in 2016.
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Suzanne Nadine Vega was born on July 11,1959, in Santa Monica, California.
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Suzanne Vega's mother, Pat Vega, is a computer systems analyst of German-Swedish heritage.
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Suzanne Vega's stepfather, Edgardo Vega Yunque, known as Ed Vega, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico.
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When Suzanne Vega was two and a half, her family moved to New York City.
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Suzanne Vega grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side.
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Suzanne Vega was not aware that Peck was her biological father until she was nine years old.
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Suzanne Vega attended the High School of Performing Arts, now renamed Fiorello H LaGuardia High School, where she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.
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Suzanne Vega's self-titled debut studio album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics in the US; it reached platinum status in the United Kingdom.
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Suzanne 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.
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The track was originally a bootleg, until Suzanne Vega allowed DNA to release it through her record company, and it became her biggest hit.
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In September 2001, Suzanne Vega released a new studio album entitled Songs in Red and Gray.
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In early October 2006, Suzanne Vega participated in the Academia Film Olomouc in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, the oldest festival of documentary films in Europe, in which she appeared as a main guest.
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Suzanne Vega was invited there as the subject of the documentary film by director Christopher Seufert, that had a test screening at the festival.
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Suzanne Vega is interviewed in the book Everything Is Just a Bet which was published in Czech in October 2006.
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Suzanne Vega introduced the book to the audience of the Svandovo divadlo, and together with some other Czech celebrities gave a signing session.
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Suzanne Vega's contract was not renewed and she was released in June 2008.
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In 2007, Suzanne Vega followed the lead of numerous other mainstream artists and released her track "Pornographer's Dream" as podsafe.
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In 2015, Suzanne Vega joined The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.
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Suzanne Vega was a judge for the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Independent Music Awards.
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Suzanne Vega participated in the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse studio album Dark Night of the Soul.
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Suzanne Vega wrote both melody and lyrics for her song, which is titled "Man Who Played God", inspired by a biography of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
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Suzanne Vega sang lead vocals on the song "Now I Am an Arsonist" with singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton on his studio album, Artificial Heart.
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Suzanne Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue, both for artistic and commercial reasons, in the Close-up series.
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Volumes 2,3 and 4 of the Close-Up albums included previously unrecorded material; Volumes 2 and 3 each included one new collaboratively written song, while Volume 4 included three songs that Suzanne Vega had written years earlier, but had not previously gotten around to recording.
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In February and March 2023, Suzanne Vega will be touring the UK.
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Suzanne Vega was encouraged to do so by her stepfather.
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Suzanne Vega has not learned to read musical notes; she sees the melody as a shape and chords as colors.
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Suzanne Vega got the melody of "Tom's Diner" while walking down Broadway in New York.
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Suzanne Vega currently plays Furch guitars, a brand made in the Czech Republic and was the focus of a win-a-guitar competition run by Furch in 2021.
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Suzanne Vega considers it to be a third version, because it's rewritten, and she made the first version in college.
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Suzanne Vega replaced Sheik, who wrote the show's music and co-wrote the lyrics with Amanda Green.
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Suzanne Vega established her own recording label after the 2008 economic crisis.
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On March 17,1995, Suzanne Vega married Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer.
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Suzanne Vega practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of the American branch of the worldwide Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.