Maggie Rogers - Alaska
Maggie Rogers had a breakthrough moment when she was a student at NYU\u2019s Clive Davis Institute. Pharrell Williams visited to her class, and when he heard her song "Alaska," his reaction was dramatic, and caught on video. The video of Pharrell listening to Maggie\u2019s song went viral, and "Alaska" became a hit, with over 40 million streams on Spotify alone. Maggie Rogers is now playing sold out shows across the country, just a year after graduating. In this episode, Maggie tells the story of what came before that day in class\u2014all the steps and missteps that eventually led to her writing the song "Alaska."
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