Luka (song)

"Luka" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, released as the second single from her second studio album, Solitude Standing (1987), in May 1987.

[7] In 2021, she revealed that the song dealt with the emotional and physical abuse she had suffered from her stepfather Ed Vega.

I am actually Luka.”[8] In 2023, she similarly told German radio Station Bayern 2 the song is about her own experience with physical abuse:I chose Luka as a name and as a character because I didn't want people to know that it was me.

[9]The accompanying music video for "Luka" was directed by Michael Patterson and Candice Reckinge.

During a 2012 episode of BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes, Vega revealed that she had written a follow-up to "Luka", from the point of view of the character as he looked back on his life.