Retrospective, a compilation album with two new tracks, was released in 2000 and Become You followed two years later. The track 'Shame on You' received more airplay on adult alternative, top 40 and adult top 40 radio stations than any of their previous singles, although this seemed to be a peak in their crossover success. Shaming of the Sun debuted at number seven on the Billboard charts, driven by the duo's contribution to the Lilith Fair music festival tour. Shaming of the Sun was released in 1997 followed by Come on Now Social in 1999. In 1995, the Indigo Girls released a live, double CD, 1200 Curfews. They then recorded Swamp Ophelia in 1994, which went platinum in September 1996, and charted at No. During the accompanying tour in December, they invited on a few dates Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees as special guest to sing a couple of songs with them. The Indigo Girls followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all and 1992's album Rites of Passage, featuring the song ' Galileo', the duo's first top 10 modern rock music track (#10). 12 modern rock music track it was not as successful as their first, which was certified platinum at about the same time. Their second album, Nomads Indians Saints, went gold in December 1991 and included the hit song 'Hammer and a Nail', a No. In 1990, they won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. They even managed one week on the mainstream rock album-oriented rock music chart at No. Also on the self-titled release was their first hit ' Closer to Fine' (a collaboration with Irish band Hothouse Flowers), which scored No. 22 on the album chart, included a new version of 'Land of Canaan', which was also on their 1985 EP album and on Strange Fire. 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.' After 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. 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 formed the IG Recordings company in 2009 and resumed self-producing albums. 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.

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