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Maggie Rogers is an American singer-songwriter and record producer born in Easton, Maryland, on April 25, 1994. She gained recognition after her song 'Alaska' was played to Pharrell Williams during a master class at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University in 2016. Rogers has released two independent albums, The Echo (2012) and Blood Ballet (2014), as well as three studio albums, Heard It in a Past Life (2019), Surrender (2022), and Don't Forget Me (2024). She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2020.