TIL Suzanne Vega is considered the “mother” of the mp3 format. The creators of the mp3 used her voice from the song Tom's Diner for analyzing the different sound spectrums when creating
US pop singer Suzanne Vega (front) pictured at the Fraunhofer Institute of Erlangen, Germany, 03 August 2007. Vega's song 'Tom's Diner' was the first to be converted to MP3 when the Fraunhofer