Thunderpuss

Cox also found solo success for himself with his own 2000 single, "Phuture 2000". Among computing circles, she is known for her song Tom's Diner being used as the reference track for the MP3 compression system. Harris mashed up songs by Billy Squier and Fischerspooner to create the song "Everybody Wants You To Emerge" for the Queer Eye For The Straight Guy soundtrack, and Cox recently remixed the Michelle Branch single "Breathe". Vega has a daughter, Ruby Froom. They split up in late 2003 and both men are pursuing DJ/remix/production work on their own. (The UK version of Retrospective included an eight-song bonus CD as well as a DVD containing twelve songs.). Thunderpuss also put out several singles themselves as artists, including "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag", a fully electronic dance cover of the "Pigbag" song, "Stand Up" (with Latanza Waters), and "FMH" (under the artist name Harris & Cox). In 2003, the twenty-one-song greatest hits compilation Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released.

They also produced original songs for various artists, including Abigail ("Let The Joy Rise And If It Don't Fit"), Amber ("Taste The Tears"), and Soluna. The subject matter deals with Vega's divorce from her ex-husband, record producer Mitchell Froom. Blige ("No More Drama" & "Rainy Dayz", with Ja Rule), Céline Dion ("I Want You To Need Me"), Stacie Orrico ("Stuck"), and Kim English ("Higher Things"), among others. September 2001 saw the release of a new album, Songs In Red and Grey. They also produced hit remixes of songs by Mary J. This album contains "Caramel", featured in the movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and "Dead Man Walking", a song from the soundtrack of a movie of the same name. Their biggest remix success was a hit remix of "It's Not Right But It's Okay" by Whitney Houston. The music varies between a frugal, simple style and the industrial production of 99.9F°.

Over the course of almost six years, Thunderpuss had a very successful career as remixers and producers. The fifth album, Nine Objects of Desire, was released in 1996. They also produced Engelbert Humperdinck's 1998 album The Dance Album, but did not use the name Thunderpuss. The songs are short and the lyric style compressed. Their first project as Thunderpuss was a cover of the song "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything", with Thea Austin, formerly of Snap! performing vocals. This gives a sunny quality to the work in contrast to the previous album. They didn't start working together as a production team until late 1997, though. It consists of an eclectic mixture of folk music, dance beats and industrial music.

Harris & Cox originally met in the late '80s and remained friends for years, with Harris eventually joining Cox at Interhit. 1992 saw the release of the album 99.9F° ("ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit degrees"). Cox, an openly straight musician and DJ, had also worked for years as a DJ and producer, producing a megamix of Paula Abdul songs, among other things, and started his own record label, Interhit Records, with Jeff Johnson. The album lacked hit single material and is best considered as a whole. Harris, an openly gay musician and DJ, had worked previously as part of several music groups, including Kon Kan, Top Kat, Killer Bunnies and Outta Control, and had also released several singles himself. Vega's third album, Days of Open Hand (1990) signified a change in style: the music became more experimental and the lyrics expressed greater emotion. Thunderpuss is the (mainly dance) remix/production team of music producers Barry Harris and Carl Cox. The music is more strongly pop-oriented compared with her first album.

"Luka" is written from the point of view of an abused child—uncommon for a pop hit. Her sophomore effort, Solitude Standing (1987), contained two successful singles: "Tom's Diner" (a hit later remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, not to be confused with the no wave band DNA) and "Luka". The songs are straightforward and oppose the 'bigger is better' slogan of the mid-1980s. They are not typical protest songs, but are introspective, in the manner of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s. Suzanne's eponymous debut album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics.

In 1984 she received a major label record contract. While she was an English literature major at Columbia University's Barnard College, she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village. Music, however, was her first love. Later she attended the New York High School of Performing Arts (the school seen in the film and musical Fame), where she studied modern dance.

At the age of nine she began to write poems; she wrote her first song at 14. She was born in Santa Monica, California, but, at the age of one, moved with her mother and her stepfather to New York City, where she grew up in a socially problematic area. Suzanne Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer.