April 2, 2026—To mark ten years of her career, and ten years since the now-legendary video with Pharrell that introduced her to the world, Maggie Rogers is launching The Maggie Rogers Foundation. The namesake philanthropic platform aims to give students a comparable opportunity.
The Maggie Rogers Foundation is dedicated to bringing arts and music education to students of all backgrounds, while continuing Rogers’ ongoing effort to support the health and wellbeing of women of all identities in communities across the country—because creativity and care go hand in hand. The foundation’s first initiative will be The Maggie Rogers Endowed Scholarship Fund at Rogers’ alma mater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, which will offer financial aid to students pursuing degrees in music production.
March 20, 2026 marked ten years since Pharrell was a guest in Rogers’ senior music production seminar, invited by her beloved professor Bob Power to give students feedback on their in-progress work. Rogers played Pharrell a demo of her song “Alaska,” and the video of his awed reaction went massively viral in the days after her graduation from NYU Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute. “Alaska” launched Rogers’ career, which has gone on to encompass three enormously acclaimed albums and extensive global touring.
Last night, Rogers performed a tribute to Stephen Colbert as his tenure on “The Late Show” comes to a close, singing the Frank Sinatra classic “One More For My Baby,” famously performed by Bette Midler on the final episode of Johnny Carson’s run on “The Tonight Show.” Watch it here. Rogers also performed “Alaska” in celebration of the song’s anniversary. Watch here. Rogers’ activism and philanthropy work includes advocacy for gun control, women’s health and abortion access, and civil rights broadly. This weekend, she spoke and performed at a Committee for the First Amendment protest at the Kennedy Center and the No Kings rally in St. Paul, MN alongside dear friends Joan Baez and Jane Fonda.
Originally from Maryland, multi-platinum, Grammy Award-nominated producer, songwriter and performer Maggie Rogers released her breakthrough EP Now That The Light Is Fading in 2017. Widely hailed as an artist to watch, Rogers shared her critically acclaimed debut album Heard It In A Past Life in 2019 and immediately found tremendous success, debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200 and earning raves from NPR, The New York Times, Vogue and many more. Heard It In A Past Life also landed Rogers a Best New Artist nomination at the 62nd Grammy Awards. The album, which contains the Platinum hits “Light On” and “Alaska,” has amassed over 1 billion streams globally and is certified Gold in the U.S. In 2022, Rogers released her follow up album, Surrender, to widespread acclaim and embarked on two sold-out headline tours across Europe and North America. Rogers’ 2024 album Don’t Forget Me saw similarly universal praise and a sold-out global tour, including her first arena run in North America with two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
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