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• Suzanne Vega is an American singer-songwriter who became famous during the brief upsurge of interest in folk-based acoustic pop in the late 1980s. That period produced her first and biggest hit, 1987's "Luka", a song that vividly explores child abuse from the stoic perspective of a victim, and hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Vega's other major hit was also first released in 1987: "Tom's Diner," which Vega originally recorded as an a capella ditty. The track didn't become well-known, however, until 1990, when it was remixed by the UK dance artists DNA, using a backing track by the R&B group Soul II Soul. In 2007, Vega released her seventh album, Beauty & Crime.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: July 11, 1959
  2. Hometown: Santa Monica, California
  3. Years Active: 1982 - Present

• Albums

  • 1985: Suzanne Vega
  • 1987: Solitude Standing
  • 1990: Days of Open Hand
  • 1992: 99.9F degrees
  • 1996: Nine Objects of Desire
  • 2001: Songs in Red and Gray
  • 2007: Beauty & Crime

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