Editing Suzanne Vega (section)

== Early life ==
Suzanne Nadine Vega was born on July 11, 1959, in Santa Monica, California.<ref>{{Citation |last=Huey |first=Steve |title=Suzanne Vega Biography |newspaper=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]] |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=p5751/biography |pure_url=yes}} |access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref> Her parents divorced soon after her birth.<ref>{{cite news |last=Curtis |first=Kim |title=Softer, earthier Vega releases new album |newspaper=[[Reading Eagle]] |publisher=Reading Eagle Company |date=September 28, 2001 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2fghAAAAIBAJ&pg=2114,7530185 |access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref> Her mother, Pat Vega (née Schumacher), is a computer [[systems analyst]] of German-Swedish heritage. Her father, Richard Peck, is of English, Irish and Scottish origin.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vega |first=Suzanne |date=2008-09-24 |title=Tom's Essay |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/toms-essay/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Opinionator |language=en}}</ref> Her stepfather, [[Edgardo Vega Yunqué]], also known as Ed Vega, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.suzannevega.com/about/1987/creem.htm |title=Suzanne And The (Un)Common Folk |first=Mark |last=Jenkins |date=August 1987 |magazine=[[Creem]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506195730/http://www.suzannevega.com/about/1987/creem.htm |archive-date=May 6, 2006}}</ref> When Vega was two and a half, her family moved to New York City.  She grew up in [[Spanish Harlem]] and the [[Upper West Side]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web |url=http://www.suzannevega.com/suzanne/biography/detailed.aspx |title=Suzanne Vega: A Life in Music |publisher=Official Community of Suzanne Vega |access-date=May 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080419032844/http://www.suzannevega.com/suzanne/biography/detailed.aspx <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=April 19, 2008}}</ref> She was not aware that Peck was her biological father until she was nine years old. Vega and Peck met for the first time in her late 20s, and they remain in contact.<ref name="theguardian"/>

She attended the [[High School of Performing Arts]]<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |editor=Colin Larkin |editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |date=1997 |edition=Concise |isbn=1-85227-745-9 |page=1215}}</ref> (since renamed [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School]]) where she studied [[modern dance]] and graduated in 1977.