Maggie Rogers Coming To Iron City In April

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Spend an evening with Maggie Rogers on April 3, 2019 at Iron City in Birmingham. Rogers is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer who has risen to fame following her opportunity to play her (later) hit single "Alaska" for Pharrell Williams at a New York University master class.

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Having grown up in Easton, Maryland, on the banks of the Miles River, she first expressed her love of music at the age of seven, by playing the harp. Her inspirations came from the music of Antonio Vivaldi and Gustav Holst, while her mother played neo-soul artists such as Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu.

While attending middle school, she also added guitar and piano to her musical abilities, along with her first forays into song writing. In her high school years, she attended St. Andrews, which is a prestigious Delaware boarding school. There, she became interested in folk music and playing the banjo. The summer, following her junior year, saw her attending a program given at the Berklee College of Music. There, she won the program’s songwriting contest and this encouraged her to shift her focus to music writing.

Her first album, “The Echo” (2012) was recorded in a makeshift studio that she put together in a broom closet. She also recorded the demos that she submitted as part of her application to the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University. After having been accepted, she interned in her freshman year for Lizzy Goodman, a music journalist, for whom she edited and transcribed hundreds of hours of interviews with major musicians. These were later compiled into a book Meet Me in the Bathroom in 2017.

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Rogers completed another album of folk music entitled Blood Ballet (2014), during her sophomore year. It was written that her album "...begs for listeners to confront deep personal emotions” by EarToTheGround, a popular folk music blog.

The aforementioned song “Alaska,” performed for Pharrell Williams in a master class, so moved the performer that a video of him listening to the song went viral in June of 2016. This led to millions of views and hundreds of thousands of plays of her other works, The Echo and Blood Ballet.

Citing Björk, Carrie Brownstein, Patti Smith, and Kim Gordon as her inspirations, she confided to Williams that she has synesthesia, which is condition that allows the senses to be triggered by stimuli that is normally perceived by the other senses. In Rogers' case, she can perceive colors in response to hearing music.

She has released three new singles, "Fallingwater," "Give a Little," and "Light On" that became part of her major-label debut album, released January 18, 2019, titled Heard It In a Past Life. She has also appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live.

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