Margaret Debay Rogers was born on April 25,1994 and is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland.
34 Facts About Maggie Rogers
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Maggie Rogers has released two independent albums, The Echo and Blood Ballet and two studio albums, Heard It in a Past Life and Surrender.
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Maggie Rogers was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2019.
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Maggie Rogers grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland along the banks of the Miles River in Easton, Maryland.
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Maggie Rogers's father is a now-retired Ford Motor Company dealer and her mother, a former nurse, is an end-of-life doula.
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Maggie Rogers began playing harp at age seven and loved the music of Gustav Holst and Antonio Vivaldi.
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Maggie Rogers spent many summers at a rural camp in Maine.
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The summer after her junior year in high school, Maggie Rogers attended a Berklee College of Music program and won the program's songwriting contest, which spurred her to focus on writing.
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Maggie Rogers included her demos as part of her application to the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, was accepted, and started in 2012.
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At NYU, Maggie Rogers considered a career in music journalism, and in her first year, Maggie Rogers interned for music journalist Lizzy Goodman for whom she transcribed and edited hundreds of hours of interviews with major musicians and journalists, which were compiled into Goodman's 2017 book Meet Me in the Bathroom.
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Maggie Rogers formed a band called Del Water Gap with a singer-songwriter S Holden Jaffe.
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Maggie Rogers released another folk album, Blood Ballet, during her second year at the school.
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Maggie Rogers studied abroad in France while at NYU and after friends convinced her to go clubbing while they were in Berlin, she discovered a love for dance music.
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When she returned home, Maggie Rogers started distilling elements of dance music into her work.
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In 2016, after two years of writer's block, Maggie Rogers wrote "Alaska", a song she wrote in fifteen minutes about a National Outdoor Leadership School course.
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Maggie Rogers played the song for Pharrell Williams, an artist-in-residence who visited her class to critique student work.
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Maggie 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.
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In September 2021, Maggie Rogers tweeted that she had started graduate school at Harvard Divinity School, where she was "studying the spirituality of public gatherings and the ethics of power in pop culture" and to learn "how to keep art sacred".
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Maggie Rogers graduated in May 2022 with a master's degree in religion and public life, writing a thesis which "examined cultural consciousness, the spirituality of public gathering and the ethics of pop power".
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Maggie Rogers's 2022 studio album, Surrender, was a component of the thesis.
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Maggie 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.
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In November 2019, Maggie Rogers earned a nomination for Best New Artist at the 62nd Grammy Awards.
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Maggie Rogers performed during the 2020 Democratic National Convention, appearing remotely from Scarborough, Maine due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Maggie Rogers was introduced by Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and 2020 United States Senate election in Maine candidate Sara Gideon.
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On November 13,2020, Maggie Rogers collaborated with Phoebe Bridgers on a cover version of the Goo Goo Dolls' 1998 single "Iris", which Bridgers said she would make if Donald Trump lost the 2020 United States elections.
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The album was released along with a deluxe version in which Maggie Rogers provides an auditory commentary talking through each stage of her music career that the songs in that section reflect.
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Maggie Rogers has synesthesia, a benign condition where two or more senses are perceived at once.
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Maggie Rogers says that she is spiritual, but not necessarily religious.
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In October 2019, Maggie Rogers purchased a 1,034 square-foot home in Los Angeles for $1.29 million.
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Maggie Rogers's song "Give a Little" was penned on the same day the National School Walkout demanded congressional action on gun control.
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Maggie Rogers was inspired by the activism of students across the nation, and wrote "Give a Little" about empathy and unity.
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Maggie Rogers has donated proceeds from certain merchandise and shows to the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood.
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Maggie Rogers has raised funds by charging pay what you want for certain song downloads, with all proceeds going to charities such as the pro-choice Brigid Alliance and Fair Fight Action, which supports suffrage.
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Maggie Rogers has stated that she is "proudly, loudly and distinctly pro-choice".