Alan Vega

Alan Vega (1938-2016), born Alan Bermowitz in New York, was an American singer and visual artist. He studied fine art at Brooklyn College and made paintings and light sculptures before turning to music. In the early 1970s he formed the duo Suicide with Martin Rev, setting his vocals against Rev's primitive drum machines and synthesizers, a sound that later punk and electronic musicians drew on. Suicide released their first album, Suicide, in 1977, followed by Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev (1980), A Way of Life (1988), Why Be Blue (1992) and American Supreme (2002).