“I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.”

American singer-songwriter and record producer

Maggie Rogers is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland. Born Margaret Debay Rogers, she came to wider attention in 2016 after Pharrell Williams heard her song "Alaska" during a master class at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in Manhattan. She has released two independent albums, The Echo and Blood Ballet, followed by the studio albums Heard It in a Past Life, Surrender, and Don't Forget Me. In 2020, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.