Maggie Rogers

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Maggie Rogers Biography

Folk singer, songwriter and banjo player whose song “Alaska” went viral. Her follow up single was called “Dog Years.”

She began playing the harp at the age of 7. In high school, she wrote folk albums called The Echo and Blood Ballet.

She discovered a passion for electronic music while studying abroad in France. She would attend New York University.

She grew up in a small, rural town in Maryland.

Her “Alaska” video went viral after a video of Pharrell Williams listening to the aforementioned song was published to the web.

Rogers earned a nomination for Best New Artist at the 62nd Grammy Awards.

Margaret Debay Rogers (born April 25, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland. Her big break came when her song “Alaska” was played to Pharrell Williams during a master class at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2020.

The summer after her junior year, Rogers attended a Berklee College of Music program and won the program’s songwriting contest, which spurred her to focus on writing. During her senior year, she turned a broom closet into a makeshift studio and recorded what became her first album, The Echo (2012). Rogers included her demos as part of her application to New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She secured admission and started in 2012.

Rogers released another folk album, Blood Ballet (2014), during her sophomore year at the school. Folk blog EarToTheGround Music explained that the album “…begs for listeners to confront deep personal emotions.”

Rogers graduated from New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in May 2016 with a degree in music engineering and production and English.

In 2016, after two years of writers’ block, Rogers wrote “Alaska”, a song she wrote in fifteen minutes about a National Outdoor Leadership School course. She played the song for Pharrell Williams in a master class he taught at her school and as a result, a video of a visibly moved Williams listening to the song went viral that June, resulting in millions of views as well as hundreds of thousands of plays of The Echo and Blood Ballet.

Rogers made her television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on February 15, 2017, Saturday Night Live debut on November 3, 2018 and Today Show debut on July 12, 2019.

Rogers’ EP, Now That the Light Is Fading, was released on February 17, 2017. She released her major-label debut album, Heard It In a Past Life, in January 2019. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200.

At NYU, Rogers considered a career in music journalism, and in her freshman year, Rogers interned for music journalist Lizzy Goodman for whom she transcribed and edited hundreds of hours of interviews with major musicians and journalists, which would be later compiled into Goodman’s 2017 book Meet Me in the Bathroom.

She has been praised in the media for standing up against sexist comments made during one of her performances. During the ACL Live performance at the Moody Theater in Austin on October 19, 2019, one man asked her to “free the nips” while another yelled out “you cute though.” Rogers went to social media to express her anger and was praised by her followers, the public and media outlets.

She guested with Dead & Company, performing “Friend of the Devil” and “The Weight” on November 1, 2019 at Madison Square Garden.

In April 2019, Rogers covered the Taylor Swift song “Tim McGraw” as a Spotify Single. She told Rolling Stone, “This song so distinctly belongs to—one of I think, personally—the greatest living songwriters.”

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