Emily Saliers

singer, The Indigo Girls

Emily Saliers is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments. Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Don and Jane Saliers and grew up in Decatur, Georgia (in metro Atlanta) where her father is a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Saliers is the second eldest of four children all girls. She began her college education at Tulane University but transferred to Emory University, graduating in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in English.