About Maggie Rose
Margaret Rose Durante 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 Startruck Records, where she released her 2018 album Change the Whole Thing.
Maggie Rose Durante was born in Potomac, Maryland and graduated from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School. She has been a lifelong singer but began performing at age 16 frequently with The B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen tribute band. She attended Clemson University but moved to Nashville during her sophomore year in order to pursue a career in music upon receiving encouragement from producer Tommy Mottola, industry mogul and former head of Sony Music Entertainment .
In 2009, Durante signed with Universal Republic out of New York and released a well-received cover of Kings of Leon's “Use Somebody”. A year later, she signed to R&J Records where her first release "Mississippi's Crying", entered the Hot Country Songs charts in December 2010 and in June 2011, her music video "Maybe Tonight" debuted on Great American Country's Top 20 Country Countdown at No. 1, a first for an independent artist.
She changed her stage name to Maggie Rose, signed with RPM Entertainment and released her first LP. Her debut album, Cut to Impress, features ten tracks highlighting Rose's vocals. The album was named by Jon Caramanica as one of country music's best releases with the lead single “I Ain't Your Mama” which was hailed as a boundary-pushing song showcasing her big, commanding voice with a groovy melody and a spitfire kind of verse structure with a sassy delivery. Her second single, "Better" was released as a follow up. “I Ain’t Your Mama” and “Better” were Top 30 singles on Billboard Country Airplay chart. Cut to Impress was hailed as one of the best listens of the year and began a new chapter in Maggie's career. After visiting the U.S. Troops in the Middle East in 2013, Maggie Rose joined Gary Allan and Sheryl Crow on The Free and Easy Tour. Maggie closed out 2013 having performed in 49 states over the course of 150 shows.
In response to Tomato-gate, sparked by the controversial remarks made by radio promoter Keith Hill urging radio programmers to play less female artists while comparing females to tomatoes on a salad, Maggie Rose responded by utilizing social media to launch what she called “Tomato Tuesdays”. She released a new song weekly to her SoundCloud, using the social hashtag #TomatoTuesday, marking her support of females in country music. ”I Want Him Bad” was hailed by critics as a standout for its astute songwriting and for combining hip-hop, 80s rock and rootsy, songwriter based sounds. Maggie Rose was dubbed by PopDust in the next class of superstar women.
Her next EP, Variety Show released in 2016, mixes country with more progressive pop and pop rock sounds. The breakout single, “Love Me More”, was deemed by Rolling Stone as a genre-busting tune highlighting Maggie Rose's confidence and vulnerability with passionate vocals, soulful honesty and great songwriting mixed with the pop-leaning production. The single landed on Sirius XM's The Highway and the video debuted exclusively on CMT where it was called a little bit pop, a little bit country, a little bit soulful, and 100 percent “Maggie”.
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