Feature: Why Lauren Daigle Is The Singer/Songwriter Everyone Needs In Their Lives Right Now.

Singer/songwriter/humanitarian Lauren Daigle is a two-time Grammy, seven-time Billboard Music Award, four-time American Music Award, and ten-time GMA Dove Music Award winner. Her incredible musical talents can be heard at Wolf Trap tomorrow evening June 11th at 8:00. Appearing with Ms. Daigle at Wolf Trap and other select cities will be the distinguished musical ensemble Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The stop is part of a multi city tour and you can see the full tour itinerary here.

Ms. Daigle has performed at the Super Bowl (“America the Beautiful” with Trombone Shorty), garnered over a billion streams, and sold-out world tours with performances spanning four continents (North America, Australia, Europe, and Africa). From Carnegie Hall to the New Orleans Jazz Fest and Lollapalooza, Cape Town to the U.K. and Sydney, Red Rocks to The Greek Theater and Radio City Music Hall, She has cemented her status as a modern vocal powerhouse with a global, ever-growing fanbase.

Since the release of her GRAMMY® Award-winning, 2x platinum-certified 2018 album Look Up Child – which includes the breakthrough, 6x Platinum hit single “You Say” – Daigle has been a mainstay on the Billboard charts. When Look Up Child debuted at No. 3 on the Top 200 Albums chart, Daigle became the first female artist in history to simultaneously hit the Top 10 on both Billboard’s Pop and Christian Album charts. She went on to break another record when the LP reached 100 weeks at No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums chart, which is the greatest number of weeks that any artist has spent at the top of any individual album chart. Similarly, the 6x platinum-certified “You Say” is the longest-running No. 1 to appear on any weekly Billboard chart.

Daigle continued to push her craft with her latest GRAMMY-nominated album, Lauren Daigle, which consists of 23 songs including the GRAMMY nominated gold-certified single, “Thank God I Do,” which became Daigle’s sixth Billboard No. 1, making her the first artist to have two songs top the chart for 20+ weeks.  The album also includes the hit “These Are The Days” and “Be Okay.” Her accompanying tours, The Kaleidoscope Tour and Kaleidoscope Nights, took arenas by a storm and was extended twice by popular demand, including additional dates throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Throughout all her successes, Ms. Daigle remains consistent in her faith and passion to serve others.  That has never been more apparent than in her latest single, “Let It Be a Hallelujah.” Written during the time between her first album, How Can It Be, and Look Up Child and recorded in Spring of 2025, the single is a passionate dedication to living a life that matters – a message that resonates with Daigle now more than ever.  Not only does she speak of this, but she practices what she preaches through her non-profit fund, The Price Fund. Established in 2019, The Price Fund has contributed over $4.2 million worldwide to over 100 organizations dedicated to music education, providing food to those in need, and helping the elderly.

We are all at a point in this country where hope is something we think is all but lost sometimes. An artist like Lauren Daigle is just what is needed. Her pixie-like stage personality and superb musicianship and vocal abilities is what every person should have on their playlist.

If you are familiar with Lauren Daigle’s work, then you know exactly what I am saying. If you are not familiar with Ms. Daigle, I highly suggest you get to Wolf Trap or one of her other tour stops. I guarantee you will be lifted by her music and be enamored of her talent. Lauren Daigle is truly a musical godsend.

At what age was it apparent to you that singing/writing music was going to be your chosen profession?

 Oh, wow. That's fun. I love telling this part of my story because it was so different for me. I was sick in high school with an autoimmune situation, and I had to be placed on homebound for about a year and a half or so.

My mom, just to help with depression and things, said, "You know what? Let's get you into voice lessons because you love to sing. You sing all the time." And so I would just sing around the house.

I started voice lessons, and then she went to my choir director and said, "Hey, she sings all the time. I don't know if she's any good or not, but you could put her in the back row.” And so, I started singing in the church choir and lead in worship. I remember I told my choir director, "Hey, in exchange for voice lessons, I would love to be your maid. I'm just a broke high school student, but I'll do anything to learn." And so, he started teaching me chord structures, how to harmonize, and things like that.

And then fast forward from there, I tried out for American Idol. This was kind of when I realized, huh, maybe something's a little different here. There were about ten thousand people or so that tried out that day, and I was one of the ones that got the golden ticket. And I remember thinking, "whoa, hold on! From our little church of two hundred people to someone who makes it out of ten thousand people, maybe I'm not just good for our church, maybe I'm good for our town, or maybe I'm good for the country."

That was a long story to say, I was probably around seventeen.

What do you most remember about the first time you stepped on stage professionally?

I was opening for this artist named Jason Gray, and it was my very first tour ever. My grandfather had passed away three days prior, and I had flown in from the funeral to start my first show. And I remember just being like, "How in the world am I going to do this?" It was a really difficult time for me, and it was the very first time I'd ever toured or been with an artist.

I remember at the end of the night, I helped push out the road cases with the crew guys. And after like two, they were like, "Oh, Lauren, this isn't your role. You don't have to do this." And I remember saying, "No, I really want to. I want to help." And they were like, "No, honestly, you don't have to." They said, "You're actually causing more work for us because you're not putting anything where it goes." And that was when I quickly realized, okay, there's a whole system to this thing. It's not just like being in the swamp at home.

I just remember feeling nervous and unsure, but so excited and ready to take on the world.

Where do the ideas for your songs come from you and how does your faith influence your music?

 I would say they all came from life experiences and situations that I've walked through. Some things are personal, some things are accounts of other people's stories, and then just me processing it through songwriting.

Faith is a major component of that because I love the Lord. I love my relationship with God and the hope that He gives me. And so, a lot of times I try to write songs that allow people to see that there is hope in the world and that there is actually goodness.

What styles of music or singers have influenced your compositions and how would you describe your style of music?

We can go so far with how many people have influenced me. My dad was someone who loved classic rock, so it was that kind of a journey. We would literally sit and analyze Steve Perry's voice and listen to Queen and Freddie Mercury.

And then my aunt was always playing Motown. She would play Marvin Gaye and then she would play jazz. She would play Nora Jones, Aretha Franklin, and The Supremes. So I felt like I had a pretty wide variety of music. And then I loved pop music when I was a kid.

I loved the powerhouse vocals of Celine Dion and Whitney Houston. I would say as a child I'll never forget hearing the song “Because You Loved Me.” I would lay down next to the radio and just wait for that song to come on. That was the first time I was like "You know what? When I grow up, I want to be a singer," because of the way Celine Dion communicated and what it poured into me.

 I tell everybody my style of music is a blend of soul and pop. And then my Christmas record is a pop jazz record.

What do you enjoy the most about playing at a venue like Wolf Trap and what might we hear you perform?

 I'm so excited to play there again. It just brings me to life. They have curated the experience for not only the audience, but for the artist, the crew, and everybody who comes in. You can absolutely tell a lot of thought went into this venue in the realm of hospitality. I love getting to play there, and it pours into the show. How our day goes backstage really does influence how the show goes.

I say that to say it's going be a show full of light, full of love, full of joy, and full of happiness. There's going be some moments where you probably cry, introspective moments, but definitely moments full of hope.

Many singer songwriters have made the jump to writing for the stage and screen. If the opportunity was presented for you to write an original musical for the stage would you accept the offer? If yes, what would the subject matter be?

 Oh yes, I would accept the offer. What the subject matter would be is a hard question that I need to ruminate on. I definitely feel like it would be a show full of color, and it would be a show full of the human experience, because those are the things that I'm fixated upon.

I love the human experience. I love emotion. I love having to learn how to go through difficult situations and become better on the other side. Maybe there would be some relational dynamics between family members or loved ones, something like that. But I would definitely say yes.

You’ve received many awards and accolades in your career thus far. What do you consider to be your greatest musical achievement as of now?

 The very first thing that came to mind when you said your greatest musical achievement was the opportunity to sing in Stateville Prison outside of Chicago. And I say that because the last person who had performed there was James Brown. I think it was in the '80s that he performed there, and it was the last time they had a crew and audience of that size. I think it was roughly two hundred inmates. Since that day, I've never experienced anything like it. But this was going into a maximum security prison, which I've done multiple times, but this one was different for many reasons. There's no parole, and that's really difficult. It really rocket launched kind of the beginning of me getting involved with humanitarian efforts and various philanthropic things.

I remember I had an opportunity to go back a second time, and there was this man that I met, and I said, "Hey "I'm going to get out of here.”  and I said, "Okay." He got out that day after serving for thirty years. He was fifty years old. He went in when he was eighteen, and we got to greet him on the other side as a free man. He had been waiting for thirty years. It was just incredible to see what had happened.

I remember asking him, "What would you do differently?" And he said, "I would go back to the youth." And I said, "How do we help?" He said, "Get involved with after-school programs. Get involved with the youth. Like, help these kids." And so, we birthed this nonprofit called The Ty Fund out of it.  We go around the country, and help after-school programs. We help nonprofits with instruments and different things like that. We help kids have an opportunity where maybe they are not great with sports or maybe they're not academically driven, but music is kind of an outlet. There was a lot of good that came from that one interaction that really transformed my life.

And because of that, thousands of kids have been touched because of that one man's story. I would say that's probably the highest achievement.

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