Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Ruelle

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused in a slightly different direction after all these years. We are shining the light on recording artist Ruelle, whose music has been featured in a long list of recent TV]  shows.

Margaret “Maggie” Eckford is an American electronic pop singer-songwriter, who grew up in Mississippi, the middle child of three sisters. Maggie attended a private Christian high school and later attended music school in Sydney, Australia. She is now professionally based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Maggie took on the stage name of Ruelle because she “wanted something that was one word…something that was sort of dark and mysterious.” After visiting France for the first time, she fell in love with the culture there, so naturally she chose the French word Ruelle. According to Maggie, “it has a few different meanings, one being a chamber; my favorite meaning is famous wolf. I thought that was pretty cool.”

[Source: Young Entertainment Mag]

Her first two indie pop albums released from Nashville – 2010’s For What It’s Worth and 2012 Show and Tell – were made under her birth name. When she took on her stage name, though, she moved toward electronic pop with a dark and cinematic style, releasing the EP’s Up in Flames in 2015, Madness in 2016, Rival in 2017 and Emerge this year.

Ruelle’s first TV placement was a song in a Japanese iPad commercial; and since then she has had songs featured in the following TV shows:

Animal Kingdom
Dancing with the Stars
Eyewitness
Famous in Love
Finding Carter
Guilt
How to Get Away with Murder
Killjoys
Life Sentence
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
Marvel’s Inhumans
Nashville
Pretty Little Liars
Quantico
Reckless
Reign
Revenge
Riverdale
Scream: The Series
Shades of Blue
Shadowhunters
Siren
Sleepy Hollow
So You Think You Can Dance
Teen Wolf
The Challenge XXX: Dirty 30
The Arrangement
The Bold Type
The Leftovers
The Looming Tower
The Originals
The Royals
The Shannara Chronicles
The Vampire Diaries
The Walking Dead
Underground
Wynonna Earp

Her music has also been featured in trailers for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, the DC Universe’s new streaming series Titans and the box office movies Bad Moms, Before I Fall, Free State of Jones and Keeping up with the Joneses. She was also featured on both the trailer and the soundtrack for the film The Loft.

Check out her songs that were used as theme songs for Shadowhunters and The Shannara Chronicles:

You can also hear her song “Madness” in the Titans trailer:

Fans can follow Ruelle at Twitter @Ruellemusic and at Facebook. You can also listen to many of her songs on YouTube at Ruelle Music and you can check out her website at Ruelle Music.

Please make sure to check our previous spotlights for women behind the scenes such as Stephanie Morgenstern, Beth Schwartz and Kristen Reidel.