false 2025-05-03 03:03:16 2025 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 38 Alternative Folk Alternative Rock Chamber Pop Contemporary Folk Downtempo Folk Folk Rock Folk Pop Indie Rock Pop Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter Art Pop cea8c828-25a5-42b6-9d5b-0bb2674ef0d7 cf119120-7df5-47d7-9dec-49f8837a4e40 dcf40b35-cb40-41ba-9e22-52436ca91c3d /config/metadata/library/4a/4a147c27560d92490578b65cc44498fd/folder.jpg Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega 1 03:20 2 04:29 3 04:36 4 03:23 5 03:35 6 03:36 7 02:53 8 03:31 9 04:09 10 03:57 Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s she released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK, "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill". "Tom's Diner", which was originally released as an a cappella recording on Vega's second studio album, Solitude Standing (1987), was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with Vega as featured artist, and it became a Top 10 hit in five countries. The original a cappella recording of the song was used as a test during the creation of the MP3 format. The role of her song in the development of the MP3 compression prompted Vega to be given the title of "The Mother of the MP3". Vega has released nine studio albums. Her most recent release is the live album An Evening of New York Songs and Stories released in 2020.