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.

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"