Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music. Two of her songs, "Luka" and "Tom's Diner" reached the top 10 of various international chart listings. The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

She performed in small venues in Greenwich Village and had some of her first songs published on Fast Folk anthology albums. 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 album was released in 1985 and reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. A video was released for the album's song "Marlene on the Wall", which went into MTV and VH1's rotations.

Solitude Standing was released in 1987 and garnered critical and commercial success including the hit single "Luka", an international success. The a cappella "Tom's Diner" from this album was later a hit, remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, in 1990. The track was originally a bootleg, until Vega allowed DNA to release through her record company, and it became her all-time biggest hit.

Vega's third album, Days of Open Hand, was released in 1990. In 1992, she released the album 99.9F°. It consists of a mixture of folk music, dance beats and industrial music.

Her fifth album, Nine Objects of Desire, was released in 1996. This album contains "Caramel", featured in the movie The Truth About Cats & Dogs. A song not included on that album, "Woman on the Tier", was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Dead Man Walking. In 1997, she took a singing part on the concept album Heaven and Hell, a musical interpretation of the seven deadly sins by her colleague Joe Jackson.

In September 2001, she released a new album, Songs In Red and Gray. Three songs deal with Vega's divorce from first husband Mitchell Froom. In 2003, the twenty-one-song greatest hits compilation Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released. In September 2006, she performed in Central Park, as part of a benefit concert for The Save Darfur Coalition.

In July 2007, she released Beauty & Crime, which won a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Also, she released her track "Pornographer's Dream" as podsafe. The song spent two weeks at #1 during 2007 and finished as the #11 hit of the year on the PMC Top10's annual countdown.

Vega is re-recording her back-catalogue. Vol.1 (Love Songs) and Vol. 2 (People & Places) were released in 2010 while Vol. 3 (States of Being) was released in July 2011 and 4 (Songs of Family) is planned for the near future.