"The female Bob Dylan" or the "new Joni Mitchell" was called Suzanne Vega at the time of the release of her self-titled debut album in 1985, of which "Marlena on the wall" and "Left of center" became two modest hits. She never fully lived up to that great promise. Besides contributing to the album "Songs from liquid days" in 1986 and that she wrote a song for the movie "Pretty in pink", she has
… since released a number of creditable CDs, of which "Solitude standing" in 1987 her best and most successful. The song "Luka" from this CD, a song about child abuse, unexpectedly became a big hit. In 1990 a dance version by a few British DJs was released under the name DNA of "more
