1. Emily Ann Saliers was born on July 22,1963 and is an American singer-songwriter and member of the musical duo Indigo Girls.
16 Facts About Emily Saliers
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Emily Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut, as the second eldest of four daughters to Don and Jane Emily Saliers, a librarian.
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Don Saliers was the William R Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
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Emily Saliers is Theologian-in-Residence and a professor emeritus as of 2016.
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Emily Saliers later attended Shamrock High School, which she did not like.
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Emily Saliers began her college education at Tulane University but transferred to Emory University, graduating in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in English.
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Emily Saliers first met her future Indigo Girls bandmate Amy Ray when they were students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia.
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When Emily Saliers left Georgia for college in Louisiana, Ray frequently visited her.
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In 2004, Emily Saliers composed her first film score for the independent short film, One Weekend a Month.
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Emily Saliers was a co-owner of Watershed, a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, from its founding until she sold her share in April 2018.
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Emily Saliers was one of the initial investors in the Flying Biscuit Cafe.
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Emily Saliers was a co-founder of the Common Pond environmental gift shop in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Emily Saliers has co-written a book with her father, Don Emily Saliers, a retired theology professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, called A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice.
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Emily Saliers married her longtime girlfriend, former Indigo Girls tour manager Tristin Chipman at New York City Hall on August 20,2013.
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Emily Saliers had a passion for wine collecting, with a wine cellar that was reported to be at 2,000 bottles, but in 2015 she announced that she had given up drinking.
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Emily Saliers assisted in funding a music room at Emory University's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts which was named for her parents Don and Jane Emily Saliers.