Maggie Rogers celebrates 10th anniversary of ‘Alaska’ with ‘﻿Colbert’ ﻿performance

Maggie Rogers celebrates 10th anniversary of ‘Alaska’ with ‘Colbert’ performance

Saturday, April 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM

Maggie Rogers performed her breakout single "Alaska" Wednesday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to celebrate the 2016 song's 10th anniversary. Rogers famously played a recording of "Alaska" for Pharrell Williams while he was visiting her music class at New York University. Footage of [...]

Maggie Rogers performed her breakout single "Alaska" Wednesday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to celebrate the 2016 song's 10th anniversary.

Rogers famously played a recording of "Alaska" for Pharrell Williams while he was visiting her music class at New York University. Footage of Williams' stunned, impressed reaction to the song - "I have zero notes for that," he said - helped "Alaska" go viral.

You can watch Rogers' Colbert performance on YouTube. She also played a cover of the standard "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" during the show.

Rogers announced in March she was launching a foundation and scholarship at NYU to mark the "Alaska" anniversary.

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