India Ramey

India Ramey is an American singer-songwriter and alt-country musician. After a layoff from her job as an attorney in Alabama, in 2010 she shifted to pursuing a music career and issued her debut album Junkyard Angel. With a performing style that combines dark humor and assertive honky-tonk, Ramey has released multiple singles and full-length albums. Her latest album, Villain Era, was released in May 2026 via Copaco Records/Blue Élan Records.

Early life Born and raised in Rome, Georgia, in interviews Ramey has described her childhood as distressing, living as a witness to domestic violence by her father against her mother. Among her musical memories, she says her father played albums by Waylon Jennings and the 1976 Willie Nelson compilation set Wanted! The Outlaws "on repeat." Ramey tells of practicing the Jessi Colter parts of the Nelson album, saying she would "get my mom’s curling iron and sing (Colter's) songs while standing on our living room ottoman." Choosing to find a career outside of the arts for practical reasons, she then graduated from now-closed Birmingham–Southern College with a bachelor's degree. During her time in law school at the University of Alabama, Ramey met her husband, fellow student Shaun Ramey, through overhearing his conversation about The Tragically Hip, a roots rock band from Ontario that India Ramey knew about from mix tapes sent to her by her Canadian brother-in-law.

Upon graduation from law school, Ramey was hired as a deputy district attorney for Montgomery County, Alabama. She pursued a law career for ten years, eventually moving to private practice in part because of the PTSD caused by the severity of cases she was handling as a prosecutor. Working with Montgomery-based producer William Barnes, a fellow performer with Scattered and Smothered, Ramey used savings from her law career to avoid the "cheap and easy route" making production decisions on her first album, Junkyard Angel, released in 2010. Ramey released three singles from it — "Montgomery Behind Me," "King of the Ashes," and "Up To No Good."

The severity of childhood memories and the domestic violence cases she handled had led Ramey to coping with panic disorder by using prescription Klonopin. She realized she had become addicted to the medicine over a twelve-year period when she tried to lower usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reviewers recognized the album as a strong rebuttal to male dominance in society, seeing Ramey as reveling in the role of "villain" for refusing to accept a submissive fate. Writing in No Depression, Rachel Cholst declared, "The 'f' word might not be a popular one to use these days, but Villain Era is some downright feminist outlaw country."

Discography Studio albums Junkyard Angel (2010) Blood Crescent Moon (2013) Snake Handler (2017) Shallow Graves (2020) Baptized by the Blaze (2024) Villain Era (2026)

Singles "Devil's Blood" (2017) "King of the Ashes" (2020) "Montgomery Behind Me" (2020) "Up to No Good" (2020) "Cocktail for Christmas" (2021) "Six Feet Under" (2025)