SUZANNE VEGA

New York’s Greenwich Village, early 1980s. The scene is a basement club. The singer, sultry-voiced, with no drama, but chock full of emotion, sings “My name is Luca…” She’s Suzanne Vega and she’s soon to be regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation, a leading figure of the folk music revival. Vega seamlessly merges her poetry with contemporary folk song, a sound that is utterly unique and identifiable to her alone; she recently released her first album of new songs in seven years, Tales From The Realm of the Queen of Pentacles.