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Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been making music as the folk rock duo Indigo Girls for

over 25 years.

I'm trying to tell you something about my life.

Maybe give me insight between black and white.

Three of their 16 albums have gone gold, four have gone platinum, and they've been nominated

for seven Grammys.

They're known for their social activism on stage and off, but long before they became

the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers were singing in church choirs.

Amy was raised in a conservative Christian family.

Emily is the daughter of a well-known Methodist pastor and church musician.

In 2006, she co-wrote a book with her father, a song to sing, a life to live, reflections

on music as a spiritual practice.

These days, Amy and Emily seem music and spiritual life intertwined in a way that can't be pinned

down.

Music is physical.

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