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The New Music Sundays: Suzanne Vega "Blood makes noise"

Extracted from her official biography at her website http://www.suzannevega.com and her wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Vega

Suzanne Vega was born in Santa Monica, CA, but grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side of New York City. Her mother, Pat Vega, is a computer systems analyst of German-Swedish heritage. Her father, Richard Peck, is of Scottish-English-Irish extraction. They divorced soon after her birth. Her stepfather, Ed Vega, also known as Edgardo Vega Yunque, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico.

At age 11 she picked up a guitar and as a teenager she started to write songs. Suzanne studied dance at the High School for the Performing Arts and later attended Barnard College where she majored in English Literature. Her self-titled debut album was finally released in 1985, co-produced by Steve Addabbo and Lenny Kaye, the former guitarist for Patti Smith. The skeptical executives at A & M were expecting to sell 30,000 LP’s. 1,000,000 records later, it was clear that Suzanne’s voice was resonating around the world.

1987’s follow up, Solitude Standing, again co-produced by Addabbo and Kaye, elevated her to star status. The album hit #2 in the UK and #11 in the States, was nominated for three Grammys including Record of the Year and went platinum. “Luka” is a song that has entered the cultural vernacular; certainly the only hit song ever written from the perspective of an abused boy.

Meanwhile, Karlheinz Brandenburg, the German computer programmer was busy developing the technology that would come to be known as the MP3. He found that Vega’s voice was the perfect template with which to test the purity of the audio compression that he was aiming to perfect. Thus Suzanne earned the nickname “The Mother of the MP3.”

In 2006, she became the first major recording artist to perform live in avatar form within the virtual world Second Life.

In 1992 "Blood Makes Noise" was number 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Track. Its from the album 99.9F° the fourth album by Suzanne Vega. The album marked a significant departure for Vega, as she embraced a more electronic-influenced, experimental sound. It peaked at #86 on Billboard Magazine album charts, as well as two songs to their Modern Rock charts, as well as "Blood Makes Noise", which reached #1 the title track reached number 27. The album was also Vega's fourth Top 20 album in the UK. It was the first of two of Vega's albums to be produced by Mitchell Froom, whom she later married.