How Songs Are Created on Instagram: "Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” was originally conceived as a song with piano accompaniment, but since Vega herself could not play the piano, it was released as an a cappella track on her 1987 album Solitude Standing. The song was inspired by her observations while having breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant in Manhattan, New York, and is notable for its calm, chant-like vocal delivery that captures the details of everyday life with nothing but the human voice. In 1990

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