Vega, Suzanne (1959- )

US singer and children's rights campaigner. She is best known for her singles ‘Tom's Diner’, sung a cappela, though later remixed by British producers DNA, and ‘Luka’, a song about child abuse, both from the 1987 album Solitude Standing.

Her self-titled debut was released in 1985. Other albums include Days of Open Hand (1990), 99.9F° (1992), Nine Objects of Desire (1996), and Songs in Red and Gray (2001).

Vega was born in California and moved to New York City at the age of two. She attended the High School of Performing Arts, then Barnard College. She was still at Barnard when she began attracting attention at Greenwich Village folk clubs. Since the late 1980s she has campaigned for children's rights, addressing meetings and conferences, as well as performing fundraising concerts for Amnesty International, among others.