American singer Suzanne Vega prays that “the right president” will be elected in November in the United States

In Nîmes, where she performed on Tuesday evening as part of a European tour, the artist looked back on forty years of her career and unveiled her new album.

Singer Suzanne Vega, a Buddhist with democratic connections,“pray that (Americans have) the good president” and hopes that his fellow citizens “will use their brains“for the election of November 5 and not to choose Donald Trump. The singer presented in Nîmes, on the evening of Tuesday July 17, an extract from her next album which will reflect “a post-Covid apocalypse”.

“I pray, I believe in prayer, I pray for peace in the world“, told AFP the New Yorker, author of the global hit Luka In the 1980’s. “We’ll see what the destiny of the United States is going to be, what this country is going to choose to be for the future. I hope people make the right decision. (…) I hope people still have a conscience and will follow that conscience.“, continues the one who says “left of center”. This is also the title of one of his other hits, taken from the film’s soundtrack. “Pretty in Pink / Rose Bonbon” (1986).

In the Nîmes arenas, which seemed very large for her music, all restraint and poetry, the 65-year-old artist reviewed more than forty years of her career, offering at the very end to the public, who were only waiting for that, the other hit that made her world famous, Tom’s DinerThroughout the concert, the arpeggios of his folk guitar dialogued with the powerful electric guitar of Gerry Leonard, a traveling companion of the late David Bowie.

A precocious guitarist, a demanding lyricist, influenced by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Lou Reed, the woman who grew up in Spanish Harlem with a Puerto Rican stepfather is one of those East Coast Americans who are receptive to the outside world. And especially to the Old Continent.I think I have more fans in Europe, that’s where I play in front of the biggest audiences.“, she says. “That’s where I go most often, I’m more familiar with Europeans, and they are more familiar with me too.“As proof of her attachment to the European continent, two years ago she composed a song entitled “Last Train to Mariupol“, on the fate of women and children fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Her appearance on Tuesday at the Nîmes festival, as the opening act for the British James Blunt, is part of a European tour that took her to Italy and will continue in Germany, Switzerland and Deauville, in Normandy, on August 1. This will be an opportunity for her to present excerpts from her next album, which should be released in spring 2025. “Some of my new songs have a political flavor, although I don’t say it so clearly, because I don’t like jargon. But it’s in the air,” she says.