Suzanne Vega
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	BIRTHDAY: July 11, 1959 BIGGEST SINGLE: "Tom's Diner" (with DNA) (1991) BIGGEST LP: Solitude Standing (1987) GRAMMY AWARDS: 1 (Best Album Package for Days Of Open Hand with Jeffrey Gold and Len Peltier - Art Directors)

# 53 Singles Artist of the Year

Suzanne was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year (songwriter), and Best Vocal Performance - Female ("Luka").

The video for "Luka" won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video and was nominated for Breakthrough Video, Best Cinematography, and Viewer's Choice.

# 120 Singles Artist of the Year

# 152 Singles Artist of the Year

Vega hit the Top 40 with DNA with "Tom's Diner."

Vega hit the Top 10 with DNA with "Tom's Diner."

Suzanne was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording (Days Of Open Hand).

Suzanne topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for a week with "Blood Makes Noise."

Suzanne hit the road to promote her new book, The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing Of Suzanne Vega. The book is a collection of song lyrics, essays, poems, and short stories. Vega told WallOfSound: "I feel I have no perspective on some of the writing. It was difficult to go through and figure out what was good and what wasn't. I had to throw it at the editors and hope and pray they had taste. But I did learn that what I may consider to be flawed, someone else might not."

Suzanne could be found on Tower Of Song: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen with the track, "Story Of Issac."

Suzanne released Songs In Red And Gray.
Suzanne toured the US in support of her new LP.

Retrospective: The Best Of Suzanne Vega was released.

Suzanne got married.

Suzanne released Beauty & Crime (Entertainment Weekly: A-).

Suzanne could be heard on the compilation Songs For Tibet - The Art Of Peace with the track "Song Of Sand" (Great City Version).

Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs was released.

Suzanne released Close-Up 4: Songs Of Family.

Suzanne released Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles.

The box set Close-Up Series was released.

• September 11: Vega released An Evening Of New York Songs And Stories.

• May 2: Vega released Flying With Angels.
  
  
  
  
  
  

	Suzanne Vega Released: April, 1985 Billboard peak: # 91 Tracks: "Cracking" - "Freeze Tag" - "Marlene On The Wall" - "Small Blue Thing" - "Straight Lines" - "Undertow" - "Some Journey" - "The Queen And The Soldier" - "Knight Moves" - "Neighborhood Girls"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Solitude Standing Released: April, 1987 US: Platinum Billboard peak: # 11 Tracks: "Tom's Diner" - "Luka" - "Ironbound Fancy Poultry" - "In The Eye" - "Night Vision" - "Solitude Standing" - "Calypso" - "Language" - "Gypsy" - "Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song) - "Tom's Diner" (Reprise)
	Days Of Open Hand Released: April, 1990 Billboard peak: # 50 Rolling Stone review: Tracks: "Tired Of Sleeping" - "Men In A War" - "Rusted Pipe" - "Book Of Dreams" - "Institution Green" - "Those Whole Girls (Run In Grace)" - "Room Off The Street" - "Big Space" - "Predictions" - "Fifty-Fifty Chance" - "Pilgrimage"
	99.9F° Released: September, 1992 US: Gold Billboard peak: # 86 Rolling Stone review: Tracks: "Rock In This Pocket (Song Of David)" - "Blood Makes Noise" - "In Liverpool" - "99.9F°" - "Blood Sings" - "Fat Man & Dancing Girl" - "(If You Were) In My Movie" - "As A Child" - "Bad Wisdom" - "When Heroes Go Down" - "As Girls Go" - "Song Of Sand"
	Nine Objects Of Desire Released: September, 1996 Billboard peak: # 92 Rolling Stone review: Tracks: "Birthday (Love Made Real)" - "Headshots" - "Caramel" - "Stockings" - "Casual Match" - "Thiin Man" - "No Cheap Thrill" - "World Before Colombus" - "Lolita" - "Honeymoon Suite" - "Tombstone" - "My Favorite Plum"
	Songs In Red And Gray Released: September, 2001 Billboard peak: # 178 Tracks: "Penitent" - "Widow's Walk" - "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May" - "It Makes Me Wonder" - "Soap And Water" - "Songs In Red And Gray" - "Last Year's Troubles" - "Priscilla" - "If I Were A Weapon" - "Harbor Song" - "Machine Ballerina" - "Solitaire" - "St. Clare"
	Retrospective: The Best Of Suzanne Vega Released: April, 2003 Tracks: "Luka" - "Tom's Diner" (with DNA) - "Marlene On The Wall" - "Caramel" - "99.9F°" - "Tired Of Sleeping" - "Small Blue Thing" - "Blood Makes Noise" - "Left Of Center" - "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May" - "In Liverpool" - "Gypsy" - "Book Of Dreams" - "No Cheap Thrill" - "Calypso" - "World Before Colombus" - "Solitude Standing" - "Penitent" - "Rosemary" - "The Queen And The Soldier" (lilve) - "Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through)"
	Beauty & Crime Released: July, 2007 Billboard peak: # 129 Tracks: "Zephyr & I" - "Ludlow Street" - "New York Is A Woman" - "Pornographer's Dream" - "Frank & Ava" - "Edith Wharton's Figurine" - "Bound" - "Unbound" - "As You Are Now" - "Angel's Doorway" - "Anniversary"
	Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles Released: February 18, 2014 Tracks: "Crack In The Wall" - "Fool's Complaint" - "I Never Wear White" - "Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands" - "Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain" - "Jacob And The Angel" - "Silver Bridge" - "Song Of The Stoic" - "Laying On Of Hands / Stoic 2" - "Horizon (There Is A Road)"
	Close-Up Series Released: August 12, 2014
	Flying With Angels Released: May 2, 2025 Tracks: "Speaker's Corner" - "Flying With Angels" - "Witch" - "Chambermaid" - "Love Thief" - "Lucinda" - "Last Train From Mariupol" - "Alley" - "Rats" - "Galway"