Alan Vega (real name Alan Bermowitz) was born in Brooklyn in 1948 and is the vocalist for 1970s and 80s no wave duo Suicide. Alan Vega's vocals are said to be influenced by Elvis Presley and rockabilly. He began his artistic career doing light sculptures, and in 1974 he opened a small gallery in lower Manhattan, where he started to create the "Project of Living Artists", a pluri-artistic place to develop various happenings or artistic attempts. Here, he met a jazz band called Reverend B, in which Martin Rev (Martin Reverby) played electric piano. Martin Rev would later become Alan Vega's partner in Suicide. After Suicide disbanded (for the first time) in 1980, Alan Vega released his eponymous first solo record, which contained "Jukebox Babe", one of his best known songs, and defined the kind of rockabilly style that he would follow for some years. Later in his career he made a commercial attempt ("Just a Million Dreams"), which p

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