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[[Suzanne Vega]] is a woman with a heavenly voice, and equally divine music to cushion it. She's known chiefly by the mainstream for “Luka” & “Tom’s Diner”, but her entire career is something to appreciate.
"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 capella vocal with relatively little reverberation was used as the model for Karlheinz Brandenburg's compression algorithm. 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 capella voice.”
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Another notable song is "The Queen And The Soldier" (1985), the characters of which have an active fandom to this day.
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* ''[[Self-Titled Album|Suzanne Vega]]'' (1985)
* ''Solitude Standing'' (1987), [[The One With...]] the aformentioned "Tom's Diner" and "Luka".
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* ''Songs in Red and Gray'' (2001)
* ''Beauty and Crime'' (2007)
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* [[Answer Song]]: "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May", in answer to [[Captain Obvious|Rod Stewart's "Maggie May".]]
* [[Anvils That Needed to Be Dropped]] - "Luka" - Child abuse and how no one should ignore the plight of the children enduring it.
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