Indigo Girls Biography

The folk-rock duo enclosing Amy Ray and Emily Saliers performed together since high school.

Early Years

In 1985 under the name Indigo Girls they issued their debut single “Crazy Game” and two years later the Strange Fire album got out.

The duo signed with Epic Records in 1988. The self-entitled album was a huge success, winning them a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. The collaboration with Epic Records lasted until 2004. Indigo Girls had already released several albums such as Rites of Passage, Swamp Ophelia and Become You.

Next Phases

The only album released under Holywood Records is called Despite Our Differences and sums up singles like “Little Perennials” and “Last Tears”.

The girls independently released the album Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (2009). Staring Down the Brilliant Dream, Holly Happy Days and Beauty Queen Sister followed up with tremendous reviews. Indigo Girls‘ fourteenth studio album One Lost Day (2015) contained the single “Happy in the Sorrow Key”.

“Music is physical. It’s got your heartbeat, it’s got rhythms, it’s got space. It’s a physiological reality along with a mystical reality. So it’s metaphysical. There’s not many things to in life you can point to and go, that’s metaphysical. But music is.”, declared Emily Saliers for On Being.

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