Yet she is now apparently on a personal high roller thanks to her new husband, who was actually an old boyfriend.
He’d first asked her to marry him in 1983 when he was an impoverished street poet scratching a dime, so to speak, in Washington Park and she was still awaiting the sprinkle of showbiz sparkle.
“I last saw him in 1984 and then he sent me a series of letters but they went astray.
“I wrote to him and tried to keep in touch and he was often on my mind. I’d written a few songs about him.
“Then a while back, he came to New York and asked if I wanted to go ice-skating. He asked me to marry him again and I said yes,” gushes Suzanne, who has something of a reputation for breaking hearts long distance.
At 17 – and unknown – she visited Liverpool and fell in love with an artist and writer whose name was Andy. She even wrote a song about him on the album Gypsy many years later, after they had parted.
“Then, at a show in London, he came to see me and it was lovely to recall that time. Oh, and I also once dated a guy from Manchester whom I have kept in touch with.
“I think they are both surprised at me getting married again – and maybe not to them,” she laughs, and confides that her hubby – now an acclaimed civil rights lawyer in the USA – is bit jealous of the other chaps she has known.
“But life is what takes you and does have its wonderful moments,” she sighs.
SUZANNE VEGA appears at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, on Saturday, June 30.
