In February and March 2023, Vega toured the UK. On May 2, 2025, Vega released her tenth studio album Flying with Angels . This was followed by a European tour.
Vega’s ninth studio album, Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers , was released on October 14, 2016.
While performing live, Vega and long-term collaborator Gerry Leonard began to introduce a number of new songs into the setlist, including the live favorite “I Never Wear White”. Over the course of a year, the songs were completed and recorded in a live-studio setting with the help of a number…
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Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue, both for artistic and commercial (and control) reasons, in the Close-Up series. Vol. 1 ( Love Songs ) and Vol. 2 ( People & Places ) appeared in 2010 while Vol. 3 ( States of Being ) was released in July 2011 followed by Vol.…
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A partial cover version of her song “Tom’s Diner” was used to introduce the British crime thriller film 4.3.2.1. (2010), with its lyrics largely rewritten to echo the plot. This musical hybrid was released as ” Keep Moving “. Vega participated in the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse studio album Dark…
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She signed a new recording contract with Blue Note Records in the spring of 2006, and released Beauty & Crime on July 17, 2007. The album, produced by Jimmy Hogarth , won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical . Her contract was not renewed and she was released…
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In 2008, a fire that broke out on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles County, California resulted in the loss or damage of some Vega recordings.
In 2007, Vega followed the lead of numerous other mainstream artists and released her track “Pornographer’s Dream” as podsafe . The song spent two weeks at number-one during 2007 and finished as the No. 11 hit of the year on the PMC Top10’s annual countdown.
Vega is also interviewed in the book Everything Is Just a Bet which was published in Czech in October 2006. The book contains 12 interview transcriptions from the talk show called Stage Talks that regularly runs in the Švandovo divadlo (Švandovo Theatre) in Prague . Vega introduced the book to…
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In early October 2006, Vega participated in the Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) in Olomouc , the Czech Republic, the oldest festival of documentary films in Europe, in which she appeared as a main guest. She was invited there as the subject of the documentary film by director Christopher Seufert ,…
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