Suzanne Vega – Gypsy
#quotefromthe80s
Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat
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A very sweet voice on a music that was always easy to follow and to indulge in: in the magnificent decade there was Suzanne Vega as well, to tell us many things.
For many, she is always the author of Luka, a delicate cry of grief about child abuse, but her deep lyrics come from far away, from the time she moved following her mother (a computer analyst) and adoptive father (a Puerto Rican writer) from Santa Monica to the depressed neighborhoods of New York.
As a teenager, she attended New York High School of Performing Arts (where she graduated in modern dance) and then graduated in English Literature at Barnard College in Columbia, starting playing her songs in Greenwich Village, where she was noticed and signed.
Suzanne’s strong connection to new technologies is curious: Karlheinz Brandenburg decided that the perfect model to verify the purity of audio compression of the new file format he was creating was Suzanne’s voice; from this belief comes the fact that Tom’s Diner is the song on which the compression of the voice in MP3 format has been specifically calibrated; Suzanne was also the first major artist to perform live in Second Life.
Still about Tom’s Diner, written in 1987, a small story reveals a bit of Suzie’s character: when in 1990 the duo DNA remixed the song making it a hit, but above all without telling her, she decided not to take any legal action. She did the opposite: since the version had inspired many covers, he collected them in all of them on a single album, Tom’s Album.
I wonder how things would have been if the producers hadn’t preferred Madonna to Suzanne in “Desperately Seeking Susan”…
But let’s come to the song that I like to remember, because it was the song that definitely made me fall in love with her: Gypsy. On several occasions Suzie has explained how the song tells of her first summer love, during a trip to Europe, and when the time came to say goodbye. She was 18, already a poet inside, gave him this song and he… well, he came from Liverpool and gifted her with his bandana.
This song is an intimate poem to love and youth, carefreeness and travel, life and the necessity and beauty of memories.
This song is Suzanne Vega.
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