Margaret Elizabeth Lindemann, known to the world as Maggie Lindemann, is an American singer-songwriter who went from posting covers on a teenage social media app to running her own record label and headlining world tours. Born on 21 July 1998 in Dallas, Texas, she holds American nationality, and carries a heritage that blends English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Welsh roots. Most people first heard her name through the 2016 pop anthem “Pretty Girl,” a song that has since racked up over one billion streams globally. What they may not know is just how much has happened since.
Biography
Early Life and Education
Maggie grew up in Dallas in a Christian household where music wasn’t her obvious path, at least not at first. She joined her church choir at the age of four and began writing original songs around age 11, though neither she nor her family initially took it seriously as a career direction. She attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, but her time there was anything but smooth. She was diagnosed with ADHD around first grade, and from fifth grade onwards, she dealt with severe bullying, including an alarming incident where someone tried to set the bushes outside her family home on fire. When a talent manager came calling in her mid-teens, she relocated to Los Angeles and completed her schooling through homeschooling. She stands at 5 feet 4 inches (approximately 162 cm).
Parents
Behind every artist is a story, and Maggie’s begins with two Texans born in the same year. Her father, Barton Duane Lindemann, known to friends and family as “Bart,” was born in 1967 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is the son of Otto Barton Lindemann and Donna Sue McGee, and works as a businessman and investment adviser. Her mother, Susan Denise Denson, was also born in 1967, in Austin, Texas. The daughter of Richard Edwin “Dick” Denson and Bonnie Gay Uhr, Susan has devoted herself to family life as a homemaker. Both parents carry substantial German ancestry: Maggie’s paternal line traces back to Peter Lindemann, born on 16 November 1816 in Remkersleben, Germany, who later emigrated to Comfort, Texas. On her mother’s side, the German lineage runs through the Uhr, Richter, Weilbacher, and Tampke families, with records reaching back to her third great-grandmother, Thekla Weilbacher, born in Germany in 1847.
Maggie has permanently honoured both parents with ink. In January 2018, she got a tattoo reading “0067” on her right elbow: the “67” stands for the birth year shared by both her parents, while the “00” represents the year 2000, the birth year of her younger brother, Mason Reid Lindemann. It’s a quiet, personal piece of art that says a great deal about how she views family.
Susan Denson played an unexpectedly pivotal role in launching her daughter’s career. As a teenager, Maggie was posting singing videos on the social media app Keek and on Instagram, including a deliberately comedic, intentionally bad cover of the national anthem. That video caught the ear of Gerald Tennison, a former Sony Music Entertainment executive who had previously worked with artists including Kesha and Zara Larsson. Tennison later recalled that even in a joke video, Maggie’s natural tone cut through for about four seconds, and that was enough. He emailed Susan that same night to request a meeting. Susan deleted it. She had no idea her daughter could sing, or even wanted to. Undeterred, Tennison followed up a second time, and this time Susan listened. She brought Maggie to Los Angeles, where they met at Capitol Records, and within days Tennison had signed her. A mother’s second look at an email she’d almost ignored changed everything.
Siblings
Maggie’s only sibling is her younger brother, Mason Reid Lindemann, born in 2000. He goes by “Reid” and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. His full name appears in a Herald-Zeitung obituary for their great-grandmother, Margaret Thekla Richter, published in October 2002, listing him alongside Maggie as a surviving great-grandchild. Maggie is known to be fiercely protective of him, and Reid has publicly referred to himself as “Maggie’s proud brother.”
Career
Maggie’s professional music journey began officially in late 2014, when Tennison signed her after months of vocal training and studio sessions. Her debut single, “Knocking on Your Heart,” dropped on 4 September 2015 and landed in the iTunes Top 20 within 24 hours. She followed it with “Couple of Kids” in October 2015 and “Things” in January 2016, before signing with 300 Entertainment, home at the time to Fetty Wap and Migos.
“Pretty Girl” arrived on 30 September 2016 and changed the trajectory of her career overnight. The Cheat Codes x CADE remix, released in March 2017, turned it into a genuine international hit, peaking at number two in Scotland, four in Sweden, six in Ireland, and eight in the UK. The song earned double Platinum certification in both the United States and the United Kingdom, triple Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, and Platinum in Germany, among numerous other certifications across Europe. Total streams across platforms have now exceeded one billion. It remains one of the most-streamed debut pop singles of its era.
She spent the following years releasing singles including “Obsessed” (2017), which has accumulated over 66 million Spotify streams, a collaboration with The Vamps titled “Personal,” and further tracks throughout 2018 and 2019. Her final release with 300 Entertainment was “Friends Go,” later re-released featuring Travis Barker in June 2019.
What came next surprised a lot of people. After leaving 300 Entertainment, Maggie founded her own label, swixxzaudio, in 2020, and pivoted sharply into pop-punk and alternative rock, citing lifelong influences including Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Evanescence, and Flyleaf. She later said she had always felt pressure to fit a pop princess image that didn’t reflect who she actually was. The PARANOIA EP, released on 22 January 2021, marked the most significant artistic shift of her career. It drew heavily from her experience of being arrested mid-performance in Malaysia in June 2019, where she was detained for performing without a proper work permit. The lead track, “Knife Under My Pillow,” came directly from the anxiety of sleeping alone with a blade for weeks after the ordeal.
Her debut studio album, SUCKERPUNCH, arrived on 16 September 2022 via swixxzaudio and Virgin Music Group, spanning 15 tracks of pop-punk, rock, and alternative metal, later expanded to 20 in a deluxe edition. Both the Los Angeles and New York pop-up shows sold out in under three minutes. The Suckerpunch World Tour followed in March 2023 with sold-out dates across four continents. Her second studio album, I Feel Everything, released on 17 October 2025, and she is currently on a world tour supporting it through mid-2026. Through swixxzaudio, she owns her masters and maintains full creative control, something relatively rare for an artist of her age.
Beyond music, Maggie founded the SWIXXZ clothing line in 2019, now stocked in over 600 Zumiez locations with reported annual sales exceeding seven figures. She also partnered with Pat McGrath Labs in 2017 in what was notably the first beauty brand sold through Spotify, appeared in Machine Gun Kelly’s 2021 film Downfalls High, which drew 16 million views on its opening weekend, and launched the SWIXXZ.AUDIO music management platform in late 2024.
Personal Life
Maggie has never been married and has no children. In the summer of 2016, shortly after turning 18, she came out as bisexual during a Periscope livestream. She has described the moment as impulsive but freeing: she spotted a rainbow pillow in a studio and decided she was done hiding. Before going public, she texted her parents via their family WhatsApp group. Growing up in a Christian household where LGBTQ relationships were rarely discussed, she’s credited her parents with creating enough safety for her to come out privately before facing the wider world. She has since become a vocal advocate for LGBTQ visibility and mental health awareness.
Her known dating history includes social media figure Carter Reynolds in 2014, YouTuber Mikey Barone in 2016, Brennen Taylor in 2017, PrettyMuch singer Brandon Arreaga from 2019 to 2022, ending by her own account on genuinely good terms, and NBA player Jordan Clarkson of the Utah Jazz from September 2022 to early 2025. Maggie has spoken about losing herself in that last relationship, and the breakup is said to have significantly influenced I Feel Everything. As of 2026, she is single.
She is also open about her struggles with depression, anxiety, and ADHD, and carries more than 40 tattoos spanning family tributes, faith symbols, and personal mantras, including the cross on her right ring finger representing her Christian faith.
Net Worth
Maggie Lindemann’s net worth is estimated at between $3 million and $4 million USD as of 2025, based on aggregated estimates.
Her income comes from multiple streams: royalties from over one billion career plays, touring income from two headline world tours, master ownership through swixxzaudio (which has generated over 500 million streams), the SWIXXZ fashion line’s seven-figure annual sales, brand partnerships, and social media earnings estimated at roughly $10,000 to $14,500 per month from Instagram alone.
