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. Website Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for her eclectic -inspired music. Vega's music career spans more than 30 years.
Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega is a greatest hits album by the American singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega, released in 2003. This album is an updated version of.
She came to prominence in the mid 1980s, releasing four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, including 'Marlene on the Wall', ', ' and 'No Cheap Thrill'. ' which was originally released as an recording on Vega's second album, was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English duo with Vega as featured artist, and it became a Top 10 hit in over five countries. The song was used as a test during the creation of the format.
Vega has released nine to date, the latest of which is, released in 2016. Vega onstage, 2008 In September 2001, Vega released a new album entitled.
Three songs deal with Vega's divorce from her first husband,. At the memorial concert for her brother in December 2002, Vega began her role as the subject of the direct-cinema documentary, Some Journey, directed by of. The documentary has not been completed. Underground hip hop duo named a track on their album released in 2002 'Suzanne Vega'. In 2003, the twenty-one-song Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released.
(The UK version of Retrospective included an eight-song bonus CD as well as a DVD containing twelve songs.) In the same year she was invited by -winning guitarist, to play at the Century of Song concerts at the famed in Germany. In 2003, she hosted the radio series American Mavericks, about 20th century American composers, which received the for Excellence in Broadcasting. On August 3, 2006, Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live in the Internet-based virtual world,.
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The event was hosted by of public radio's. On September 17, 2006, she performed in, as part of a benefit concert for the. During the concert she highlighted her support for, of which she has been a member since 1988. In early October 2006, Vega took part in the Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) in, the Czech Republic, the oldest festival of documentary films in Europe, in which she appeared as a main guest.
She was invited there as the subject of the documentary film by director, that had a test screening at the festival. At the end of the festival she performed her classic songs and added one brand new piece called New York Is a Woman. Vega is also interviewed in the book Everything Is Just a Bet which was published in Czech in October 2006.
The book contains twelve interview transcriptions from the talk show called Stage Talks that regularly runs in the Švandovo divadlo (Švandovo Theatre) in. Vega introduced the book to the audience of the Švandovo divadlo (Švandovo Theatre), and together with some other Czech celebrities gave a signing session. She signed a new recording contract with in the spring of 2006, and released on July 17, 2007. The album was produced by Jimmy Hogarth, which won a.
Her contract was not renewed and she was dropped in June 2008. In 2007, Vega followed the lead of numerous other mainstream artists and released her track 'Pornographer's Dream' as. The song spent two weeks at number-one during 2007 and finished as the No. 11 hit of the year on the PMC Top10's annual countdown.
In 2015, Vega joined The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. She was also a judge for the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Independent Music Awards. Vega at Union Chapel, London, 2015.
Improvising by using the pulpit A partial cover version of her song Tom's Diner was used to introduce the 2010 British movie, with its lyrics largely rewritten to echo the plot. This musical hybrid was released as '. Vega participated in the // collaboration. She wrote both melody and lyrics for her song, which is titled 'The Man Who Played God', inspired by a biography of. Vega sang lead vocals on the song 'Now I Am an Arsonist' with singer-songwriter on his 2011 album,. Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue, both for artistic and commercial (and control) reasons, in the Close-up series. 1 ( ) and Vol.
2 ( ) appeared in 2010 while Vol. 3 ( ) was released in July 2011 followed by Vol. 4 ( ) in September 2012.
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 Vega had written years earlier, but had not previously gotten around to recording. In all, Vega's Close-Up series features 60 re-recorded songs and five new compositions, representing about three-quarters of her lifetime songwriting output. While performing live, Vega and long-term collaborator began to introduce a number of new songs into the setlist, including the live favorite I Never Wear White. Over the course of a year, the songs were completed and recorded in a live-studio setting with the help of a number of guests. Produced by Leonard, was released in February 2014.
It was her first album of new material in seven years and became Vega's first studio album to reach the UK Top 40 since 1992, peaking at No. New album was released on October 14, 2016. Songwriting At the age of nine she began to write poetry. She was encouraged to do so by her stepfather.
It took her 3 years to write her first song, Brother Mine, which was finished at the age of 14. It was first published on, along with her other early song, The Silver Lady. Vega has not learned to read musical notes; she sees the melody as a shape and chords as colors. She focuses on lyrics and melodic ideas; for advanced features – like intros or – she relies on other artists she works with. Most of her albums, except the first one, were made in such cooperation.
She states that 80% of the songs she started writing get finished. The most important artistic influences on her work come from, and. Some other important artists for her are and. Theater Vega and wrote a play Carson McCullers Talks About Love, about the life of the writer. In the play directed by Kay Matschullat, which premiered in 2011, Vega alternates between monologue and songs. Vega and Sheik were nominated for Outstanding Music in a Play for the 57th annual Drama Desk awards.
The album, based on this play, was released in 2016. Vega considers it to be a third version, because it's rewritten, and she made the first version in college. Amanuensis Productions Vega has established her own recording label after the. From that point, she stopped working for and started thinking about re-recording her back catalog with new arrangements and gaining control over her works (which she eventually did with the ). The name 'Amanuensis Productions' was meant as a private joke about 'servant' owning the 'masters' , also a pun at still legally owning her previous master tapes. Running the label proved to be harder than she expected. In 2015 it just 'broke even', but new licenses were coming for.
Personal life On March 17, 1995, Vega married, a musician and a record producer (who played on and produced and ). They have a daughter, Ruby Froom (born July 8, 1994). The band 's album was named after her, with Vega's approval. Beginning in 2010, Ruby has occasionally performed with her mother.
Vega and Froom separated and divorced in 1998. On February 11, 2006, Vega married Paul Mills, a lawyer and poet, '22 years after he first proposed to her.' Vega practices and is a member of the US branch of the worldwide Buddhist association. Awards and nominations Year Awards Work Category Result 1987 Herself Best Female Singer Won 1988 ' Best Female Video Won Breakthrough Video Nominated Best Cinematography Nominated Works.
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In 2008, Vega and other famous artists from the US, Canada and South Africa to the United Kingdom, the album Songs for Tibet, an initiative to support Tibet and the dalai lama Tenzin Gyatso. Songs for Tibet appeared at the same time as the 2008 Summer Olympics in the People's Republic of China whose opening took place on 8 August; the album was released via iTunes on 5 August and from 12 August through music stores around the world. Since the invasion of Tibet in 1950-1951 China occupied the country with-according to critics-a widespread political, religious and cultural oppression. Suzanne Vega was married to producer Mitchell Froom and has with him a daughter, Ruby. Suzanne married for the second time in 2006, now with lawyer and poet Paul Mills. She had early 80 's also already have a relationship with him.