The Indigo Girls talk about their long career in music and the obstacles that are still there. If you don't play into the patriarchal heterosexual mold, you're not going to get as far as a straight woman. Amy Ray and Emily Salier met in elementary school but didn't really get to know each other until high school when they started performing music together. Their first full-length album came out in 1987; they have been making music together ever since.