Megan Rose

Megan Rose

Megan Rose is a solo artist from New Jersey who grows up on Denman Island in the Strait of Georgia. She starts out playing acoustic guitar and singing, then expands her approach by teaching herself to beatbox and play the jug while also guitar-playing, singing and rapping. She uses a loop pedal to build these layers live.

Style and performance

Her music combines hip hop, electronic and acoustic elements, with multiple vocal parts creating the effect of a choir of her own voice. The description of her work emphasises this mix of looping, percussion, vocals and rap rather than a straightforward singer-songwriter format.

Early background

Before developing this fuller set-up, she plays acoustic sets in coffee shops. She moves away from that setting after finding it limiting, and develops a more varied performance style around looping and beatboxing.