Susane Vega

Suzanne Vega was among the first major figures in the bumper crop of female singer/songwriters who rose to prominence during the late '80s and '90s. Her hushed, restrained folk-pop and highly literate lyrics (inspired chiefly by Leonard Cohen, as well as Lou Reed and Bob Dylan) laid the initial musical groundwork for what later became the trademark sound of Lilith Fair, a tour on which she was a regular. Moreover, her left-field hit singles "Luka" and "Tom's Diner" helped convince record companies that folk-styled singer/songwriters were not a thing of the past, paving the way for breakthroughs by Tracy Chapman, Michelle Shocked, Shawn Colvin, Edie Brickell, the Indigo Girls, and a host of others.

On Station’s “GunGodGame”, Alan Vega sounds like Jack Kerouac on the eve of drinking himself to death, both in sentiment and poetic cadence. The “humiliations” and attempts at “trying to bring back what’s not there” haunt him. But Alan Vega has never given up. His mission is to rekindle love and dreams and rail against authority’s disdain for both. 2007’s Station, filled with several successful stabs, is proof that he won’t quit until he’s gone, and even then his legacy will remain. An audacious human being, he’s felt comfortable presiding over both literal and musical riots, contributing to punk, industrial, and electronic music, as well as rebellion and literature in the process. It’s a wonder and a privilege that he’s still around.

Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and her first for Blue Note Records. It was released on July 17, 2007. Beauty & Crime won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, on February 11, 2008. On Beauty & Crime, Suzanne Vega's Blue Note Records debut, the Manhattan native uses New York City as the backdrop for a collection of eleven new songs that juxtapose acoustic guitar-driven melodies with coolly synthesized beats; intensely personal lyrics with compelling, short story-like narratives; images of today's scarred cityscape with memories of Vega's old Upper West Side 'hood and Lower East Side haunts. The past commingles with the present, the public with the private, familiar sounds with the utterly new, just like the city itself. Making her first new studio album in six years, Vega says, "I feel like I really stretched my limits. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone–to sing in keys I wouldn't have sung in before, to work with different textures, to be unafraid of doing what ever sounded good to me. I wanted to make a modern classic."

Saxophonist Carlos Vega's band crackles…crafty arrangements, spirited group interplay, and ear-grabbing freshness and spontaneity in their soloing.

Twelve tracks originally recorded in 2010 to 2014 as part of the Close Up series of acoustic reimaginings of Suzanne’s favorite songs. Never before released!

‘La Reina Pez’ es más que un disco, es un proyecto con mensajes importantes para Vega que aprovecha su ventana al mundo, su música, para hacerlos llegar.

With hits such as "Luka" and "Marlene on the Wall," folksy singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega helped pave the way for future artists the likes of Tracy Chapman, The Indigo Girls and Sinead O'Connor. This retrospective features all 16 of Vega's videos, including "Tom's Diner," "In Liverpool" and "99.9Fº." Extras include an alternate video of "Caramel," promotional videos for three of Vega's albums, a discography and a rarities archive.

Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers is the ninth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega. The album is based on a play "Carson McCullers Talks About Love" about the life of the writer Carson McCullers, written and performed by Vega, which premiered in 2011. Suzanne Vega wrote 8 songs in collaboration with Duncan Sheik and 2 with Michael Jefry Stevens.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1976 debut album from the Soul vocalist. One of the new breed of artists signed to Motown in the mid-'70s, New York-born Tata was surrounded by first class musicians such as Ray Parker Jr.., James Gadson, Chuck Rainey, Eddie 'Bongo' Brown, Jay Graydon, Sonny Burke and Greg Poree. In addition to covers of songs by Stevie Wonder ("Never Had a Dream Come True") and Rufus ("Keep It Coming," written by Ashford & Simpson), writers involved in the album included a teenage Teena Marie ('Just As Long As There Is You'), UK rare groove favorites Michael & Brenda Sutton ('Music in My Heart') and Tata herself who contributed 'Try God'.

Donald Vega is far from being an unknown figure.