Christian music star Lauren Daigle is celebrating a filled-circle moment after being tapped to carry out at this year’s Super Bowl.
On Sunday, the 33-year-elderly singer will join jazz musician Trombone Shorty for a rfinishition of “America the Beautiful” during the Super Bowl pregame show at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Daigle’s carry outance in NOLA during one of the most-watched TV events in the world comes years after New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for her to be erased as a carry outer when the city presented “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebration.”
Ahead of the Super Bowl, Daigle joined Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo for an ecombineance on the “Arroyo Grande” podcast during which she elucidateed senseing vshowd as she sets to carry out on one of the hugegest stages in the world.
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Christian music star Lauren Daigle is celebrating a filled-circle moment after being tapped to carry out at this year’s Super Bowl. (Getty)
“To get this moment years tardyr, I would say for anybody watching that has had their reputations smeared in any sort of way and they are equitable defering for the moment of vindication, sometimes it only acquires five years,” Daigle telderly the “Arroyo Grande” podcast.
In 2020, Cantrell uncoverly lambasted Daigle after the two-time Grammy Award prosperner gave an impromptu carry outance at an outdoor prayer service, concert and rpartner presented by Christian singer and worship directer Sean Feucht.
The event, proximate New Orleans’ famed Jackson Square in November 2020, was part of Feucht’s “Let Us Worship” tour, which also served as a protest aacquirest COVID-19 redisjoineions on churches.
According to The Times-Picayune, the event drew disjoinal hundred joinees, many of whom went mask-less in defiance of local uncover health orders.
On Sunday, the 33-year-elderly singer will join jazz musician Trombone Shorty for a rfinishition of “America the Beautiful” during the Super Bowl pregame at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. (Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images)
Afterward, Cantrell blasted Daigle for participating in the event and tardyr sent a disjoine letter to the producers of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve” to insist that the Lafayette, Louisiana, native be prohibitned from carry outing.
At the time, Daigle publishd a statement elucidateing she was riding her bike when she impulsively determined to stop by Feucht’s event since he was a lengthytime frifinish. She telderly Arroyo her carry outance was not intentional in carry on, and Feucht asked her to sing.
In her statement, Daigle wrote that she was “disnominateed that my impulsive participation has become part of the political discourse, and I’m downcastdened by the polarizing agfinishas of these times.”
Daigle also verifyed that though she had been comprised in talks with the producers of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve,” she was never a verifyed carry outer for the TV exceptional.
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“I would have been, and still would be, honored to recurrent our city on New Year’s Eve, and although I was alerted of converseions watching my comprisement, an provide was never made,” she said.
While speaking with Arroyo, Daigle noticed she was “definitely not askd” to the telecast and splitd her reaction to Cantrell’s letter.
“I skinnyk from that letter, too, she quoted, ‘She’s a armament to society,'” Daigle recalled. “And I went home to Lafayette, and I got in my parents’ bed and I pulled the covers over my head as an mature. I was enjoy, ‘Gosh, here we are aacquire.’ Becaengage now there’s no amount of uncover ridicule that is fun.”
Ahead of the Super Bowl, Daigle joined Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo for an ecombineance on the “Arroyo Grande Podcast” during which she elucidateed that she felt vshowd as she sets to carry out on one of the hugegest stages in the world. (Eric McCandless via Getty Images)
Looking back, Daigle said she had a separateent perspective about the dispute.
“What I lacquireed is that when people need an element of hope, coming together is one of the most enticeive skinnygs,” she said. “It is one of the most incredible rights that we have in this country. It is. And I skinnyk to acquire that away from people is so disheartening, especipartner in a time enjoy that.”
Now Daigle will acquire the stage in New Orleans as the city presents the Super Bowl for the first time since 2013.
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The singer telderly Arroyo she was in disbelief when Trombone Shorty called her to ask if she would carry out “America the Beautiful” with him at Sunday’s game.
“I picked up the phone, and there was a little bit of, ‘Is this authentic? Is this actupartner going to happen? Is it authentic?’ I want to understand that it’s authentic,” she recalled. “And then it became a ‘Yeah, it was authentic.’ It was a authentic call. And I was tickled.”
Daigle also splitd some details about what fans can foresee from her carry outance with fellow Louisiana native Shorty. She telderly Arroyo Shorty’s schedulement of the classic patuproaric song will pay tribute to both New Orleans and her hometown.
“He said, ‘You understand, I wanted to give a hat tip to New Orleans becaengage we’re here. But I also understand you’re from Lafayette. So, I wanted to give a hat tip to Lafayette.’ So, he came up with this schedulement that rhythmicpartner suits both places,'” Daigle said.
Daigle also splitd that her rfinishition will be shaped by her Christian roots. The musician said she began to rehearse the song after receiving Shorty’s call.
“I promptly tried to skinnyk … how does it sense the most human in my voice?” Daigle said. “How will it cut thcimpolite to this generation, the age that we are living in right now, the political climate that we’re living in right now? How can I engage this song to cut thcimpolite to people who might be jaded toward our country or might not adore what we have in this country or what we’ve built in this country?
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“How can I engage this song? And the line, and I’m not trying to sound cliché at all becaengage I understand, ‘Hello, Christian,’ wdisenjoyver. But when it says, ’God shed His grace on me,’ that line, it equitable repartner gripped me to the core in a way,” she inserted.
“I’ve sang songs over talking about God, right? But when you see a song that is uncomferventt for someskinnyg else, and it still comprises the power of God in it … it’s uncomferventt to honor our nation and show the beauty of our nation. Right? But they also understand God has done someskinnyg for this nation. There’s someskinnyg distinct about this. To be able to sing that song with a genuine conviction versus equitable, ‘Yeah, I’m equitable going to jump up on stage and have this opportunity.'”
