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♛ Ruelle

Maggie Eckford or Margaret Eckford (born November21, 1985), better known by her stage name Ruelle, is anAmerican electropop singer-songwriter. Her music has been used on televisionseries such as the opening theme songs of Dynasties ("Game of Survival"), Shadowhunters ("ThisIs The Hunt") and The Shannara Chronicles ("Until We GoDown").

Born the middle child of three sisters, Eckford grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and attended a private Christian high school. She attended music school in Sydney, Australia. Ruelle is now based in Nashville, Tennessee. She adopted the French word "Ruelle" as her stage name because she liked how it gave off a sense of darkness and mystery, and how it has multiple meanings, including "chamber".

Though Nashville is known for country music and rock-and-roll, Ruelle's first two albums, For What It's Worth (2010) and Show and Tell (2012), released under her birth name Maggie Eckford were indie pop. She then adopted the stage name Ruelle to represent her musical career, and moved towards electronic pop with EPs Up in Flames (2015), Madness (2016), and Rival (2017).

Ruelle's first television placement was a song in a Japanese iPad commercial. Alongside the theme songs for Shadowhunters and The Shannara Chronicles, her songs have also been featured in numerous prime time television series, including Arrow, Inhumans, Dancing with the Stars, The Challenge XXX: Dirty 30, Cloak & Dagger, Eyewitness, Famous in Love, Grey's Anatomy, Guilt, How to Get Away with Murder, The Leftovers, Midnight, Texas, The Originals, Pretty Little Liars, Quantico, Reckless, Reign, Revenge, Riverdale, Scream, Sleepy Hollow, So You Think You Can Dance, Teen Wolf, Titans, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, Wynonna Earp, Doom Patrol (TV series) and The Village.

She featured in both the trailer and the soundtrack for The Loft as well as trailers for Bad Moms, Before I Fall, Free State of Jones, and Keeping up with the Joneses. Her song Game of Survival featured in the 13 Reasons Why trailer, the Gears 5 trailer and the trailer for David Attenborough's BBC Earth series Dynasties. Madness is in Siren, and The Looming Tower trailer features the song Rivals.