MP3之母 : Suzanne Vega

*Suzanne Vega-Luka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCXnJIAQd1o&feature=fvw
*Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (From "Live At Montreux")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1DCIUR-nY&feature=related
*Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-1Ei8TpJE&feature=channel
*Suzanne Vega合輯
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-26hsZqwveA&a=GxdCwVVULXfBhNuTdXmpCvbuPwFTsBIK&list=ML&playnext=1
*Suzanne Vega live in concert -- WOODEN HORSE (Caspar Hauser's Song)1989 4/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZyD9igjyNE&feature=related


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Vega

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer 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.

Tom's Diner

Tom's Restaurant, after which the song Tom's Diner was named Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner" was used as the reference track in an early trial of the MP3 compression system, earning her the distinction of being the Mother of the MP3. It was chosen because her a cappella vocal with relatively little reverberation was used as the model for Karlheinz Brandenburg's compression algorithm.[7] Brandenburg heard “Tom's Diner” on a radio playing the song. He was excited and at first convinced it would be “nearly impossible to compress this warm a cappella voice.”
Luka
"Luka" was covered by The Lemonheads on the 1989 album Lick, shortly before the band was signed by Atlantic Records, and was a minor college-airplay hit. On a 1987 Swedish television special, Vega said this about the song "Luka":
“ A few years ago, I used to see this group of children playing in front of my building, and there was one of them, whose name was Luka, who seemed a little bit distinctive from the other children. I always remembered his name, and I always remembered his face, and I didn't know much about him, but he just seemed set apart from these other children that I would see playing. And his character is what I based the song Luka on. In the song, the boy Luka is an abused child — in real life I don't think he was. I think he was just different.[8] ”
Also, in an ASCAP interview, she responded to a question about "Luka":
“ Interviewer: When you can touch so many people with songs like "Luka", it must be pretty rewarding.
Vega: Yeah. It’s an amazing feeling. Especially since that particular song is a very special song. It’s a song about child abuse, so therefore it does touch a lot of people in a different way than if it were, say, a love song or some other kind of song.[9]


Personal life
On March 17, 1995 Vega married Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer. They have a daughter, Ruby Froom (born July 8, 1994). The band Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom album was named after her, with Vega's approval, though she requested a slight change.[7] Vega and Froom separated in 1998.
On February 11, 2006, Vega married Paul Mills, a lawyer and poet. They originally met each other at Folk City on West 4th Street when singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, a friend of both, introduced them. In their own words, Mills proposed to Vega in May 1983(???), and she accepted his proposal on Christmas Day 2005.

Studio albums
Year Album UK[18] U.S. AUS NZ GER FR SUI
1985 Suzanne Vega 11 91 23 9 54 - -
1987 Solitude Standing 2 11 7 1 6 - 8
1990 Days of Open Hand1 7 50 74 24 16 - 19
1992 99.9F° 20 86 56 38 27 - 24
1996 Nine Objects of Desire2 43 92 - - 43 25 23
2001 Songs in Red and Gray - 178 - - 53 36 47
2007 Beauty & Crime3 - 129 - - 81 52 79
2010 Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs - - - - - - -
2010 Close-Up Vol. 2, People & Places - - - - - - -