Indiggo

Indiggo and the Indiggo Twins are the stage names for Gabriela Modorcea and Mihaela Modorcea, twin sisters and Romanian-American professional actresses, dancers, singers, and writers.

They were born in Romania, received visas for extraordinary artistic abilities, became American citizens and live in New York City.

They speak English, French, German and Romanian and sing in seven languages.

The twins were born in 1985 in Brașov, Transylvania, Romania.

Their father, Grid, a PhD, writer, filmmaker and critic, worked for 30 years as a film producer and screenwriter at the Romanian National Center for Cinematography and for Romanian National Television.

Their mother, Violeta, has a PhD and is a writer, literature teacher and translator of Mongolian, Russian, and American literature.

At the age of six, they began studying piano, guitar, canto and dance.

At the age of twelve, they debuted on Christmas Eve on Romanian Television singing the carol "Colinde, colinde", written by Mihai Eminescu, generally regarded as Romania's greatest poet.

They have performed regularly on German and European TV shows.

They speak English, French, German and Romanian and sing in seven languages.

They graduated from the Theatre Department of the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L.Caragiale" in Bucharest, Romania, with the highest score of 10.

They are the first twin actresses in Romanian theater.

After graduation, they went to Germany to record "I do not need Georgie Clooney, I do not need David Beckham," composed by their producer, Dieter Bohlen, and to study acting.

They continued their study of acting in New York where they live.

MediaPro Music released their first CD album Indiggo (2000), containing several hit singles: "Nu-mi pasa", "Clar de luna" and "Am eu grija de mine", and selling in over 20 European countries, including Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Their singles "Hip Hop Jam" (2003) and "Be My Boyfriend" (2006) entered the top of the charts and the singles and their album Indiggo found commercial success in Germanic territories.

They signed a worldwide, multi-year, co-publishing/grand rights deal with international music publisher Imagem.

Mihaela has written two poetry books, Rage and Love and Wicked Clone or how to get reborn.

Indiggo's first Europe-wide single, "Hip Hop Jam", (BROS Music, 2003), a song with Cuban influences produced by David Brandes, entered the German charts.

Gabriela appeared in the film National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) and in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Hothouse".

They were semi-finalists on America's Got Talent and acted in the Russian-American film Lyubov v bolshom gorode (No Love in the Big City).

They have performed in a number of awarded musicals and finished seventh in the Romanian qualifiers for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.

On February 24, 2006, they qualified for the National Final of the Romanian qualifications for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest and on February 26, performing "Be My Boyfriend", they finished seventh.

On March 10, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Ariola, released the pop/rock CD single "Be My Boyfriend", which entered the German charts.

Of the five songs Indiggo submitted for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, two were their own compositions, the other three were composed by Dieter Bohlen, Thomas G:son and Philip Vella.

Of the 259 songs submitted, "Love Struck", composed by Thomas G:son and written by Gerard James Borg, was one of the 24 songs selected for the semi-finals.

In 2008, they received visas under the extraordinary artistic abilities category.

They have appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, TMZ, The Happy Hour (FOX Business Network) and Hair Battle Spectacular (Oxygen (TV channel)); in advertisements for Dell Computers, the New York Knicks and Wodka Gorbatschow, and in music videos with Danny Aiello, Lindsay Lohan, 50 Cent and Kanye West.

American rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z sampled Indiggo's single "La La La" (2011) on their collaborative album Watch the Throne (2011).

New York Times reviewer Jon Caramanica describes the sample as "moving" and a "gem".

In August 2011, they signed a worldwide, multi-year co-publishing/grand rights deal with international music publisher Imagem.

They are members of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers).

They created and teach Hip Hop Belly Dancing at a dance studio in the Flatiron District of New York City.

They are working on an album with American music manager DAS Communications' David Sonenberg, Peter Zizzo, Rockwilder, DJ Paul Oakenfold, and Swizz Beatz.

In August 2011, rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West released their first collaborative album, Watch the Throne.

The track "Murder to Excellence" contains a sample of Indiggo's "La La La".

Complex's Kathy Iandola says "La La La" is a "tribal pop track" that becomes "haunting" as Jay-Z and Kanye West discuss the rise in murder rates and black on black crime.

In October 2013, they became American citizens, performing The Star-Spangled Banner during their oath ceremony.

They wrote, composed, choreographed, designed and perform their Off Broadway play Wicked Clone The Cinema Musical (2018) based on Mihaela's 500-page novel Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil (2016).

New York City Guide's Theatre Editor Griffin Miller describes the show as “a rare piece of visual and audio creativity” that "turns the tables on tradition by telling ‘the story of a vampire bitten by a human being’”. They wrote, composed, arranged, designed and performed their original cast recording album of 25 "immortal" songs.