Trivia

Recorded the song "Completo incompleto" (Complete Incomplete) with Pau Donés.

Presented his last song, "Antes de haber nacido" (Before Being Born), a few months before his death, while he was preparing a new album when he died, in May 2009.

Recorded a version of the song "Cómo hablar" (How to Talk), included in the second album of the group Amaral, called "Una pequeña parte del mundo" (A Little Part of the World) with singer Eva Amaral.

Cousin of Nacho García Vega. Together created at late 70's Nacha Pop, one of the most important Spanish music bands of all times.

Singer with music group Nacha Pop.

Dedicated his last album, "3000 Noches con Marga" (3000 Nights with Marga), published in 2005, to his longtime partner Margarita del Río, who had died the year before.

Considered the best composer of Spanish pop.

His song "La chica de ayer" (The Yesterday Girl), released in 1980, is considered the most important anthem of "La Movida", a Spanish cultural movement in the late 70's and early-middle 80's.

Was friends with Antonio Flores.

Never hid his problems with drugs. Accurately one of his greatest hits is "Se Dejaba Llevar" (He was Carried Away), what it talks about addictions.

In 2000 he participated in the tribute album "A tu lado" dedicated to the lead vocals of Spanish pop band Los Secretos Enrique Urquijo (who died by accidental drug overdose in 1999) performing Los Secretos' song "Agárrate a mí, María".

Participated in the tribute to the Spanish group Hombres G..

In the song "A trabajos forzados" (To penal servitudes) he put music to an Antonio Gala's poem.

In 1996 he was subject of an album tribute called "Ese Chico Triste y Solitario" (This Sad and Lonely Boy), where several Spanish singers did make covers of Vega's songs.

In the middle 80's he was one of the several singers whose participated in the child TV show La bola de cristal (1984). There he sang "Una Décima de Segundo" (A Decimal of a Second).

On 2019, in his 10th death anniversary, it was published the book "¿Y si pongo otra palabra?" (Spanish for "And if I put another word?"), a compilation of the lyrics of his songs, as tribute to him.