Their first major-label release, also named Indigo Girls, which scored No. The success of 10,000 Maniacs, Tracy Chapman, and Suzanne Vega encouraged Epic Records to enlist other folk-based female singer-songwriters Epic signed the duo in 1988. Strange Fire apparently changed his opinion. With this release, they secured the services of Russell Carter, who remains their manager to the present they had first approached him when the EP album was released, but he told them their songs were "immature" and they were not likely to get a record deal. That same year, the Indigo Girls released a six-track Extended play album named Indigo Girls, and in 1987 released their first full-length album, Strange Fire, recorded at John Keane Studio in Athens, Georgia, and including "Crazy Game". Their first release in 1985 was a seven-inch single named "Crazy Game", with the B-side "Everybody's Waiting (for Someone to Come Home)". Saliers stated in a March 2007 National Public Radio Talk of the Nation interview, "we needed a name and we went through the dictionary looking for words that struck us and indigo was one." Īfter forming their duo in college, the Indigo Girls played small clubs in the Emory Village district of Druid Hills, Georgia.īy 1985, they had begun performing together again, this time as Indigo Girls. Homesick, both returned to Georgia and transferred to Emory University in Atlanta (where Saliers' father was a professor). A year later, Ray graduated high school and began attending Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Saliers graduated and began attending Tulane University in Louisiana. While attending Shamrock High School (now Druid Hills Middle School), they became better acquainted, and started performing together, first as "The B-Band" and then as "Saliers and Ray". Recording and touring Early years Īmy Ray and Emily Saliers first met and got to know each other as students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia, just outside Decatur, Georgia, but were not close friends because Saliers was a grade older than Ray. Saliers and Ray are both lesbians, though not a romantic couple, and are active in political and environmental causes.
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Saliers is an entrepreneur in the restaurant industry as well as a professional author she also collaborates with her father, Don Saliers, in performing for special groups and causes. Outside of working on Indigo Girls–related projects, Ray has released solo albums and founded a non-profit recording label that promotes independent musicians. After releasing nine albums with major record labels from 1987 through 2007, they have now resumed self-producing albums with their own IG Recordings company. They released a full-length record album entitled Strange Fire in 1987, and contracted with a major record company in 1988. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in Emory Village. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Indigo, Epic, Legacy, Columbia, Hollywood, IG Recordings/ Vanguard, Rounder Indigo Girls performing on August 12, 2021
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