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).