maggie rogers

Ten years ago, Maggie Rogers was a senior at NYU, scrambling to finish a song for a music-production class she was close to failing. The guest critic that week happened to be Pharrell Williams. She played him “Alaska,” a track she’d written in about 15 minutes. It’s a bit of folk songwriting crossed with the electronic music she’d fallen for while studying abroad in Berlin. Pharrell told her he’d never heard anything like it. Someone was filming, the clip went viral, and it launched Maggie into pop stardom. A decade later, she’s released three studio albums, earned a Grammy nomination for Best