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Notable guest appearances include Suzanne Vega and Bruce Hornsby. The album reached 111 on the Billboard 200 in 1989. The title track was released as a single and in 1990 reached 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and 23 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans almost 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".
While participating in off-Broadway shows such as Pump Boys and Dinettes, she was featured in Fast Folk magazine, and in 1987, producer Steve Addabbo hired her to sing backup vocals on the song "Luka" by Suzanne Vega.
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- Left Of Center. We close out our top 10 Suzanne Vega songs list with the great track “Left Of Center.” The song was released on the soundtrack to the 1980s classic motion picture Pretty In Pink that starred Molly Ringwald.
- Tom’s Diner. This is one of those songs that once you hear it, you just can’t get it out of your head. There is a great deal of history behind the song “Tom’s Diner.”
- Luka. Hand’s down, “Luka,” is Suzanne Vega’s most popular song. It also easily stands as her most successful single release of her career. “Luka,” was released in 1987 on the album entitled Solitude Standing.
- Blood Makes Noise. “Blood Makes Noise,” is the second song from the great 99.9F album to make our top 10 Suzanne Vega songs list. This is one of the most interesting songs of Suzanne Vega’s career.
A live tape sold at Colvin's shows (Live '88) attracted the attention of Columbia Records, who signed her the same year in the wake of success from such like-minded performers as Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega, and the Indigo Girls.
Mar 6, 2014 · Leonard’s harmonium builds up beneath steady dampened strumming in a gentle ebb and flow as Vega unexpectedly lifts the melody at the end of the chorus’ "Are you standing on that bridge". The last verse repeats the first in an almost-a capella, "My heart is full today…" echoing exactly how Vega is as she is here, at her brightest and her best.
Oct 5, 2021 · “H ow low does one heart go?” wonders Suzanne Vega on Penitent, the aptly titled first song of her sixth album.
