一肩长发，满眼清醇地在小酒吧浅吟低唱城市民谣。国王和士兵，暗恋着楼上男人的女孩，凝望着窗外的晚餐。Susanne Vega象是点出了纽约清新而茫然的一刻，她的情绪总是那么清澈，最多起一层雾，嗓音也总是那么淡淡的，有一点丽，象一抹烟翠。<br /><br /> Suzanne Vega 是80年代民谣运动复兴的领军人物,她既是歌手，又是一个出色的词曲作家。1985年其处女专辑发表，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。<br /><br /> 1987年的第二张专辑“Solitude Standing”（孤独站立），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。专辑中的“Tom''s Diner”和 "Luka" 更是成为经典名曲。此后发行的三张专辑，成绩依然不俗，直到1999年出版了现在这张精选唱片，其中收录了“Tom''s Diner”、"Luka"、“99.9F°”等多首经典名曲。她的音乐是顺耳顺心，一路流淌下来。八年前初听到Tom''s Dinner，也叫我淡淡地吃了一惊，从此不能忘记这个名字。这张精选集， Tried and True,配器加了些电子味，然而如一条小溪，还是八年前一样流着，可是对一个诚实的歌者来说，还有什么是必需的呢？Susanne， 通常是歌里被吟唱着的那个邻家女孩芳名。<br /><br /> BORN: July 11, 1959, Sacramento, CA<br /><br /> Vega was born in Santa Monica, CA, and moved to New York City at age two. She attended the High School of Performing Arts, then Barnard College. Vega was still at Barnard when she began attracting attention at Greenwich Village folk clubs and was featured on several issues of the songwriters'' magazine/record album The CooP (later The Fast Folk Musical Magazine) in 1982. She was signed to A&M Records in 1984 and released her first album, Suzanne Vega in 1985. It was a critical success and a moderate seller. Vega''s second album, Solitude Standing, featured "Luka," a song about child abuse that became a surprise hit single in 1987. The album itself went gold. Vega took three years to release the follow-up, Days of Open Hand (1990), which was a commercial disappointment, though a few months later a couple of British DJs, under the name D.N.A., put out a dance version of her a cappella song "Tom''s Diner" from the album Solitude Standing, and it became a hit.<br /><br /> On her next album, 1992''s 99.9?F., Vega experimented with the dance rhythms that made "Tom''s Diner" a hit; although the result was interesting, it didn''t give her any hits. Vega''s fifth album was scheduled for release in the spring of 1996. ~ William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide
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