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“I’m trying to explain you something ‘bout my life” are the opening words from the Indigo Girl’s seminal punch “Closer to Fine.” The Grammy winning duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers started with a basement tape in 1981 and went on to snag a deal with Epic Records in 1988, a Grammy in 1990, and nearly 20 albums over more than 30 years. I can personally attest to singing a number of their hits both in and out of the shower and belting out a few harmonies at karaoke.
Over the years, Ray and Saliers have get known for more than their song. They’ve been at the forefront of many important causes, including LGBTQ+ rights, bringing awareness to climate change, the rights of Native Americans and even performing on “Dear Mr. President” with Philly homie Pink who returned the favor on their song, “Rock and Roll Heaven’s Gate” which addressed sexism and heterosexism in the music industry. Both Ray and Saliers have flourishing solo careers (Ray has a recent album, “If It All Goes South” dropping on Sept. 16th), but contain united for this tour and their album “Look Long” which references a look back at their journeys through life and melody. And if you and your bestie have been pra
The Indigo Girls — Emily Saliers and Amy Ray — are having a moment. Since the release of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” feature in the summer of 2023, in which the homosexual duo’s “Closer To Fine” was heard repeatedly, to today, when they are prominently featured in Tom Gustafson’s “Glitter & Doom” and Alexandria Bombach’s doc “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All,” Indigo Girls are hotter than ever. That’s just the half of it! In addition to a well-received performance on the “Today” show, Indigo Girls are embarking on a multi-city concert tour, including several dates with Melissa Etheridge. In the midst of their super working schedule, Saliers was generous enough to make time for an interview.
Since the summer of 2023, when “Closer To Fine” was featured prominently in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” to today when we are speaking, Indigo Girls are having an amazing year. So, I’d fond of to begin by asking you to say what it meant to you to have “Closer To Fine” heard in “Barbie.”
First of all, it was a huge surprise to be asked. And it was an honor because both Amy and I adore Greta Gerwig’s work. It just kind of fell out of the sky, this massive gift. We knew it was going to be in the traile
“I’m scared too. But it’s an agreement with our audience. We’re asking everybody to be themselves and we’ve got to carry out the same thing.”
From the very first moment they started singing together, Amy Ray felt like her head was going to explode. They were in her parent’s basement teaching cover songs — she’s pretty sure their first was “A Junkie’s Lament” by James Taylor — and she remembers thinking, “‘This is amazing.’ Not, we sound amazing. But this feels amazing. It was always about, ‘This feels amazing.’ It was like, ‘This is the most fun I’ve ever had. So, I long for to keep doing this.'”
The pair, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, soon formed their band, Indigo Girls, and now more than 35 years later, they’re still making music, both together and separately. And thank God, right? Their storytelling ability is unmatched; there are not two better musicians out there who know how to work together to produce what can only be described as magic. More than any other band, it is their melody that I keep returning to again and again.
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Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers marries longtime partner
Emily Saliers, the red-headed half of the Indigo Girls duo, announced Saturday between songs during a show at Vancouver’s Vogue Theatre that she and her longtime partner Tristin Chipman acquire married. The binational couple has a 9-month-old daughter.
“I got married,” Saliers told her fans. “My partner’s my wife, she’s Canadian. She’s from, well, she was born in Calgary but she spent most of her grown-up life in Toronto. She went to Lethbridge though for academy. She’s geographically a hybrid.
“I got married in New York because we would’ve got married in Canada if it counted in the U.S. but you all know what I mean. We got married in New York so that she could find her green card so we could be free. We waited such a long time.”
Saliers wrote a letter to the Queer community in June this year regarding her binational relationship with Tristin. She spoke to Congress about comprehensive immigration reform. In her letter, she wrote:
“My significant other Tristin is from Canada. We met nearly 10 years ago when Tris