Five Star Big Country Janet Jackson George Michael Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega was born on July 11, 1959, in Santa Monica, California.[5] Her parents divorced soon after her birth.[6] 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.[citation needed] Her stepfather, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, also known as Ed Vega, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico.[7] 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.[8] 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 Simple Minds
