“It's funny because, based on the music I was making before, if you'd asked me who was the one gatekeeper or influencer whom I'd want to hear my music, I don't think Pharrell would be the first person I'd pick.”

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.