Amy Ray
Amy Ray is an American singer and guitarist who is part of the folk duo, the Indigo Girls. Since high school, Ray and co-Indigo Girl, Emily Saliers, have written music together and after signing with Epic Records, began releasing a number of hit songs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While the group is still together, Ray also has a solo career. In August 2008 she released her latest album Didn't It Feel Kinder.1
Fast Facts
- Born: April 12, 1964
- Birth name: Amy Elizabeth Ray
- Plays the guitar
- Member of the Indigo Girls with Emily Saliers
- Group formed in high school
- Indigo Girls signed with Epic Records in 1988
- Ray founded the non-profit Daemon Records in 1990
- Concept behind Daemon Records is to support local artists
- Released first solo album, Stag, in 2001
- 2008 solo album is Didn't It Feel Kinder
Quotes
"Something like 'Bus Bus,' I wanted this lead thing going on with a kind of raucous band, and the harmonies are very important but they are more of a bed that you're singing over rather than the duo. I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. ... And it sort of steers my writing in some ways."—Amy Ray2
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