The folk-pop singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega seemed to have disappeared out of the public life since her latest album, 2001’s “Songs in Red and Gray�. But, as she has now explained, her continual activity has never stopped; it is just that she has not released any new studio album.

Suzanne Vega has been doing lots of things since her latest 2001’s album release. First of all she promoted “Songs in Red and Gray� for two years, and, at the same time, she was compiling a collection called “The Virgil Project�, which was inspirited by the tragic events from the 11^th of September 2001. Members of the Greenwich Village Songwriter’s Exchange were involved too in this project.

Then, in 2003, Suzanne Vega went for a change and she started to look for another manager. It took her a year, but she found whom she really needed. And that was not all. The singer got also married, wrote another few songs, hosted a public-radio series and she hasn’t been forgotten by fans.

However, the 17^th of July 2007 will be a really important date for these loyal fans and for the 47-year-old singer too, as she will release “Beauty & Crime�, which will be the first album of the singer’s latest agreement with EMI’s Blue Note.