Maggie Rose
Powerhouse vocals meeting vintage soul and swampy rock. It is music for open roads, whiskey neat, and finding your own voice in the noise.
Powerhouse vocals meeting vintage soul and swampy rock. It is music for open roads, whiskey neat, and finding your own voice in the noise.
Maggie Rose sounds like the intersection of a Nashville songwriter's circle and a late-night session at FAME Studios. Her music is anchored by a voice that can move from a confidential whisper to a floor-shaking belt in a single breath, always backed by a band that feels like they've been playing together for decades. There is a tangible warmth to the production, favoring real instruments and the natural resonance of a room over digital sheen.
What makes her distinctive is her refusal to stay in the country lane she started in. While her early work flirted with mainstream radio, her recent output is a deep dive into blue-eyed soul, funk, and psychedelic rock. She uses brass sections and Hammond organs not as window dressing, but as essential conversational partners to her vocals, creating a sound that feels both vintage and urgently modern.
Start with the album 'Have a Seat' to hear her fully realized soul-rock persona. It captures the perfect balance of her songwriting craft and her incredible range, serving as a manifesto for an artist who has successfully bridged the gap between Americana and classic R&B.
Margaret Rose Durante (born May 19, 1988) is an American soul and country music singer. In 2009, Durante signed to Universal Republic and released a cover of Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody". A year later, she left Universal Republic and signed to independent Emrose Records, an imprint that used the services of James Stroud's Stroudavarious Records. She charted two singles for Emrose and released her digital EP, Maybe Tonight. Maggie also recorded two songs that were featured in episodes of the Disney Channel's Shake It Up and Good Luck Charlie television series, and were included on the Shake It Up: Break It Down soundtrack album that was released on July 12, 2011. Durante changed her recording name to Maggie Rose in 2012 after signing with Scott Siman's RPM Management. When Siman expanded RPM to include a mainstream country label, he launched the album with her as the flagship artist with the first single being "I Ain't Your Mama". In 2017, Rose signed to Starstruck Records, where she released her 2018 album Change the Whole Thing. In 2024, Rose released her fourth studio album, No One Gets Out Alive. The album was well received and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
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