Amy ray indigo girls biography

ByJan MacKell Collins

In 1987, music lovers got a pleasing earful from an all-new folk band, the Indigo Girls. Formed by longtime friends Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the Indigo Girls croon about life-changing epiphanies, gay rights, and politics, both together and separately.

After officially forming the Indigo Girls in 1985, according to The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the duet released their first album, Strange Fire, in 1987. Amazon reviewers give it a solid 4.9 out of five stars even now.

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And the band's newest album, Look Long, has received equally complimentary reviews, according to the Indigo Girls themselves. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was spot-on when it declared that the twosome "remain one of the most consistent musical treasures in folk-pop."

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To date, the Indigo Girls have been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, scoring one win in 1989 for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.

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