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Live @ Benaroya Hall: Suzanne Vega

SUZANNE VEGA is regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation.  She was a leading figure of folk-music in the early 1980's when she accompanied herself on acoustic guitar and sang songs she created.  Vega sings in a distinctive, clear vibrato-less voice that has been described as a "cool, dry sandpaper-brushed near-whisper".  A masterful storyteller her songs have always tended to focus on city life, ordinary people and real world subjects.

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