Amy Ray(I)
- Actress
- Music Department
- Composer
Amy Ray is half of the internationally
famous, Grammy-Award-winning folk/rock duo
Indigo Girls. She began playing the guitar
at an early age and in high school began playing as a duo with
Emily Saliers; the duo adopted the name
"Indigo Girls" in 1985. After several years of college and playing the
local scenes in Atlanta, GA, and nearby Athens, the duo was signed to
Epic Records in 1988, and their first major-label album "Indigo Girls"
was released in 1989. Their major albums to date are "Strange Fire"
(1987, re-released in 1989), "Indigo Girls" (1989),
"Nomads*Indians*Saints" (1990), "Rites of Passage" (1992), "Swamp
Ophelia" (1994), "1200 Curfews" (1995) and "Shaming of the Sun" (1997).
Boys on the Side (1995) is their
only movie appearance to date (although they did appear in the first
Ellen (1994) episode of 1998).
