Video hit Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega - Rosemary (Remember Me)

This video is from a duo Music Exchange in Japan, 2005.

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.

Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

While majoring in English literature at Barnard College, she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village, where she was a regular contributor to Jack Hardy's Monday night songwriters' group at the Cornelia Street Cafe and had some of her first songs published on Fast Folk anthology albums.

In 1984, she received a major label recording contract, making her one of the first Fast Folk artists to break out on a major label.

Vega's self-titled debut album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics in the U.S.;[4] it reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. Produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve Addabbo, the songs feature Vega's acoustic guitar in straightforward arrangements. A video was released for the album's song "Marlene on the Wall", which went into MTV and VH1's rotations. During this period Vega also wrote lyrics for two songs on Songs from Liquid Days by composer Philip Glass.

Her next effort, Solitude Standing (1987), garnered critical and commercial success including the hit single "Luka", an international success. "Luka" is written about, and from the point of view of, an abused child—at the time an uncommon subject for a pop hit. While continuing a focus on Vega's acoustic guitar, the music is more strongly pop-oriented and features fuller arrangements. The a cappella "Tom's Diner" from this album was later a hit, remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, in 1990. The track was originally a bootleg, until Vega allowed DNA to release through her record company, and it became her all-time biggest hit.

In the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994), when Vincent Vega (John Travolta) responds affirmatively to Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman)'s inquiry if he's related to Suzanne Vega, she replies, "So you're related to the folk singer Suzanne Vega". He replies, "Suzanne Vega's my cousin, who happened to become a folk singer."

The lyrics:

Do you remember when you walked with me

Down the street into the square?

How the women selling rosemary

Pressed the branches to your chest

Promised luck and all the rest

Put their fingers in your hair?

I had met you just the day before

Like an accident of fate

In the window there behind your door

How I wanted to break in

To that room beneath your skin

But all that would have to wait

In the Carmen of the Martyrs

With the statues in the courtyard

Whose heads and hands were taken

In the burden of the sun

I had come to meet you

With a question in my footsteps

I was going up the hillside

And the journey just begun

My sister says she never dreams at night

There are days when I know why

Those possibilities within her sight

With no way of coming true

'Cause some things just don't get through

Into this world, although they try

In the Carmen of the Martyrs

With the statues in the courtyard

Whose heads and hands were taken

In the burden of the sun

I had come to meet you

With a question in my footsteps.

I was going up the hillside

And the journey just begun.

And all I know of you

Is in my memory

And all I ask is you

Remember me