“Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist, I totally understand. But it meant that my many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story. I'm super grateful that it happened, but it left me feeling like I never got to be a full human in the experience.”

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.