In 1990 they released their sophomore album, Nomads Indians Saints. The album won a Grammy Award for best contemporary folk recording, and the duo was nominated in the best new artist category. Their debut album on Epic, Indigo Girls (1989), featured what would become their biggest-selling single, “Closer to Fine,” and a guest appearance by R.E.M. Each returned to the Atlanta area in 1984, and they both graduated from Emory University.īy 1985 they were frequently performing at Atlanta clubs while promoting their independent single, “Crazy Game.” In 1986 they released a six-track extended-play (EP) recording and followed it the next year with their first full-length album, Strange Fire.Ī representative from Epic Records heard the duo at the Little Five Points Pub in 1988, and the Indigo Girls signed a recording contract with the major label. In 1981 they played for their first live audience: their high school English class.Īfter graduation Ray moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to study English and religion at Vanderbilt University, and Saliers settled in New Orleans, Louisiana, to major in English at Tulane University. The two formed a friendship, and they later discovered their complementary musical talents-Ray’s brooding voice and edgier style balanced Saliers’s vocals and folkier leanings. At Laurel Ridge Elementary School she met Amy Ray, who was born April 12, 1964, in Atlanta, and was then in the fifth grade. Emily Saliers was born July 22, 1963, in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved with her family to Decatur when she was in the sixth grade.
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