Suzanne Vega

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风格: #民谣流行　#根源唱作人　#城市民谣　#流行摇滚　#艺术流行
地区: United States of America 美国

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中文名苏珊·薇格

外文名 Suzanne Nadine Vega

国籍美国

出生地美国加利福尼亚州

出生日期 1959年7月11日

职业歌手,歌曲作者

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苏珊·薇格，1959年7月11日出生于美国加利福尼亚州，歌手、歌曲作者。

她被认为是80年代民谣运动复兴的领军人物，那时她经常怀抱着木吉它出没于 Greenwich 村的俱乐部，唱着那经由她自己改编的黑人布鲁斯歌曲及现代民谣歌曲。

早年经历

1959年7月11日，加州的 Santa Monica，一个仅重2磅半的女婴早产了2个月，由于体重过轻，女婴不得不在保育器里渡过她在人世的第一个星期，这个女婴便是 Suzanne Vega。Suzanne 的父母在她一岁生日后便离婚了，一年后 Suzanne 的母亲与一个玻多里哥的移民 Ed Vega 再婚，Suzanne 便与母亲和继父一同前往纽约生活。由于从小的生活环境使得 Suzanne 能讲一口流利的西班牙语并对于各种艺术形式产生了浓厚的兴趣。Vega 的父母也经常在家中弹唱民谣歌曲。当 Suzanne Vega 11岁的时候，她便开始自学吉它；12岁时，Suzanne 便开始写一些小诗；14岁时，她开始创作一些被她称为“恐怖又粗俗”的歌曲，当她把这些歌曲给她的继父看时，她的继父便告诫她：“写东西时要诚实，不要弄虚作假。” Huddie Ledbetter,Pete Seeger,Woody Guthrie,Cisco Houston,Odetta,Joan Baez,Judy Collins,Laura Nyro,Paul Simon,Leonard Cohen 等人的歌伴随 Vega 渡过了美好的童年及青春期。

当然除了这些民谣及布鲁斯大师，Vega 还对巴西爵士乐手 Astrud Gilberto 的音乐，作家 Carson McCullers 及画家 Edward Hopper 的作品感兴趣。并且早在十几岁时，Vega 便读到了 Bob Dylan 的传记，并梦想自己今后也能像 Bob Dylan 那样改变自己的命运。中学时期 Suzanne Vega 在曼哈顿的 High School of Performing Arts 学习现代舞，并在那时，Vega 在当地的教堂的非正式的集会上作了首次的公开演唱。在纽约的 Barnard 大学学习的课余，Suzanne 又不时的在 West Side coffee houses 及 Columbia 大学的民谣音乐节上作表演。

演艺经历

1978年，Suzanne Vega 便在 Greenwich村的俱乐部里表演，那里也是 Bob Dylan 首次公开演出的地方。由于在 Greenwich 村的俱乐部里表演受到了同行及观众的好评，这使得 Suzanne 的信心倍增，更坚定了她要在自己歌唱生涯走下去的自信。1979年，Vega看了一场美国著名朋克摇滚先驱 Lou Reed 的演唱会后，深受震惊，感觉到自己也能像 Lou Reed 那样的创作。1982年，Suzanne Vega 从 Barnard 大学毕业，并得到了一份正式的接待员的工作。业余时间她仍然在 Greenwich 村的俱乐部里表演。由于她那强烈的音乐个性，引起了新闻界及唱片公司的注意。1983年，A&M唱片公司与 Suzanne Vega 签下了一纸合约。两年后，一张收录有《Cracking》,《Marlene on the Wall》,《Small Blue Thing》,《The Queen and the Soldier》,《Neighborhood Girls》等十首歌的同名处女专辑发表。专辑出人意料的受到了乐评界一致好评。并且在英美两地销量出奇的好。著名的《Rolling Stone》杂志还把该专辑评为八十年代最出色的一百张专辑之一。

此后 Suzanne Vega 便在世界各地巡演，并被邀请到如 Royal Albert 音乐厅，Carnegie 音乐厅，Radio City Music 音乐厅等此类高等的地方演出。1986年，Suzanne Vega 更是为Philip Glass 的管弦乐队谱了两首曲子。巨大的成功使 Suzanne Vega 压力倍增，1987年的第二张专辑《Solitude Standing》（孤独站立）很好的表现了她的这种心态。但谁也没料到，《Solitude Standing》在商业上取得了更大的成功，专辑在全世界的销量达到了300万张。乐评家和歌迷一如既往的支持她。专辑中的《Tom’s Diner》和《Luka》更是成为经典名曲。同年，专辑《Solitude Standing》及歌曲《Luka》更被 Grammy 提名为最佳年度专辑奖及最佳年度单曲奖，Vega 本人也被提名为“年度最佳女艺人”奖。

接下来1990年的专辑《Days of Open Hand》和1992年的专辑《 99.9 F》也是一帆风顺，专辑《99.9 F》的严谨性与复杂性使得该专辑赢得了 New York Music Award 的最佳年度摇滚专辑奖。“Suzanne那清秀的脸庞，还有她那优美的身材会使人联想到她是个弱不禁风的女子，”评论家 Marcia B 如是说到，“但她内心确拥有着坚强的，积极向上的意志！”

经过四年人生大事的安排，Suzanne 终于在96年完成了新专辑《Nine Object of Desire》已经成为母亲的她，无论在造型抑或曲风上都展现出成熟性感的韵味。专辑融合了清新民谣，Jazz,Bassa,Nova尤其在打击乐的表现上十分突出。

2001年，发行专辑《Songs in Red and Gray》。

2007年发行《Beauty & Crime》。

2014年发行专辑《Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles》。

2016年10月将发行专辑《Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening With Carson Mccullers》。

Life and career

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.

Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album ‘Solitude Standing’, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an ‘a cappella’ version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

Vega has released eight studio albums to date, the latest of which is ‘Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles’, released in 2014.

Vega was born July 11, 1959, in Santa Monica, California.At the age of nine she began to write poetry; she wrote her first song at age 14. Later she attended New York's prestigious High School of Performing Arts (now called LaGuardia High School). There she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.

While majoring in English literature at Barnard College,she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village, where she was a regular contributor to Jack Hardy's Monday night songwriters' group at the Cornelia Street Cafe and had some of her first songs published on ‘Fast Folk’ anthology albums. In 1984, she received a major label recording contract, making her one of the first Fast Folk artists to break out on a major label.

Vega's self-titled debut album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics in the U.S.;it reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. Produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve Addabbo, the songs feature Vega's acoustic guitar in straightforward arrangements. A video was released for the album's song "Marlene on the Wall", which went into MTV and VH1's rotations. During this period Vega also wrote lyrics for two songs ("Lightning" and "Freezing") on ‘Songs from Liquid Days’ by composer Philip Glass.

Vega's song "Left of Center" co-written with Steve Addabbo for the 1986 John Hughes film ‘Pretty in Pink’ reached number 32 on the British Singles Chart in 1986.

Her next effort, ‘Solitude Standing’ (1987), garnered critical and commercial success, selling over a million copies in the U.S.The a cappella "Tom's Diner" from this album was later a hit, remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, in 1990.

Vega's third album, ‘Days of Open Hand’ (1990), continued in the style of her first two albums.

In 1992 she released the album ‘99.9F°’. It consists of a mixture of folk music, dance beats and industrial music. This record was awarded Gold status by the RIAA in recognition of selling over 500,000 copies in the U.S. The single "Blood Makes Noise" from this album peaked at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

Her fifth album, ‘Nine Objects of Desire’, was released in 1996. The music varies between a frugal, simple style and the industrial production of ‘99.9F°’. This album contains "Caramel", featured in the movie ‘The Truth About Cats & Dogs’ and, later, the trailer for the movie ‘Closer’. A song not included on that album, "Woman on the Tier", was featured on the soundtrack of the movie ‘Dead Man Walking’.

In 1997 she took a singing part on the concept album ‘Heaven and Hell’, a musical interpretation of the seven deadly sins by her colleague Joe Jackson, with whom she had already collaborated in 1986 on "Left of Center" from the ‘Pretty in Pink’ soundtrack (with Vega singing and Jackson playing piano).

In 1999, Avon Books published Vega's book ‘The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writings of Suzanne Vega’, a volume of poems, lyrics, essays and journalistic pieces.

In September 2001, Vega released a new album entitled ‘Songs in Red and Gray’. Three songs deal with Vega's divorce from her first husband, Mitchell Froom.

In 2003, the twenty-one-song greatest hits compilation ‘Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega’ was released.

On August 3, 2006, Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live in the Internet-based virtual world, Second Life. The event was hosted by John Hockenberry of public radio's ‘The Infinite Mind’.

On September 17, 2006, she performed in Central Park, as part of a benefit concert for the Save Darfur Coalition.

She signed a new recording contract with Blue Note Records in the spring of 2006, and released ‘Beauty & Crime’ on July 17, 2007. The album was produced by Jimmy Hogarth, which won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Her contract was not renewed and she was dropped in June 2008.

A partial cover version of her song "Tom's Diner" was used to introduce the 2010 British movie ‘4.3.2.1’, with its lyrics largely rewritten to echo the plot. This musical hybrid was released as "Keep Moving". Vega participated in the Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch collaboration "Dark Night of the Soul". She wrote both melody and lyrics for her song, which is titled "The Man Who Played God", inspired by a biography of Pablo Picasso. Vega sang lead vocals on the song "Now I Am an Arsonist" with singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton on his 2011 album, ‘Artificial Heart’.

Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue, both for artistic and commercial (and control) reasons, in the Close-up series. Vol.1 (Love Songs) and Vol. 2 (People & Places) appeared in 2010 while Vol. 3 (States of Being) was released in July 2011 followed by Vol. 4 (Songs of Family) in September 2012.

While performing live, Vega and long-term collaborator Gerry Leonard began to introduce a number of new songs into the setlist, including the live favorite "I Never Wear White." Over the course of a year, the songs were completed and recorded in a live-studio setting with the help of a number of guests. Produced by Leonard, ‘Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles’ was released in February 2014. It was her first album of new material in seven years and became Vega's first studio album to reach the UK Top 40 since 1992, peaking at #37.

Her new album,’Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening With Carson Mccullers’ will be released in October 2016.

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