Thousands and thousands of views and a hotly contested document label bidding struggle later, Rogers launched her debut album, Heard It in a Previous Life, in 2019 — an enthralling, uncooked, folk-pop masterpiece — and obtained a Grammy nomination for Finest New Artist in 2020 (she misplaced out to Billie Eilish). Then burnout and the pandemic hit. She pressed pause on music and headed off to Harvard to check for her grasp’s in Faith and Public Life. ‘I felt like I had discovered myself on this unconventional ministerial place the place I used to be on stage with a microphone and folks have been asking me for recommendation on demise and marriage and life, and I used to be like, “I’m not f***ing certified for this.” Nevertheless it seems nobody is. I went to Harvard on the lookout for solutions and discovered that no person has one. Everyone seems to be simply doing one of the best they will.’ Reinvigorated, she minimize off all her hair, constructed a studio on high of her mother and father’ storage in Maine and launched her second critically acclaimed album, the extra rocky Give up, in 2022, impressed by her time at Harvard Divinity College.
