Christian Artist Turned to God in Despair and Found New Music
By Movieguide® Contributor
During a time when life was uncertain, hectic, and anxiety-provoking, Christian artist Lauren Daigle turned to God in the only way she knew how — by making music.
When COVID hit, Daigle suffered from intense anxiety. But that anxiety inspired her third album, and she shared the process behind creating it in an interview with Relevant Magazine.
“During COVID, there was so much despair,” Daigle recalled. “I started writing these songs because I needed these songs to pull me out of that. I needed God to come and breathe on this experience for me, to remind me of how life can begin again.”
She titled the album “Lauren Daigle” because it was a healing journey and a “new beginning” for the artist.
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“This album is self-titled because it was definitely a new beginning for me internally,” she said. “This was a new beginning for me to simply begin again. It was a step for me to say, ‘Okay God, I see places in my life that I have let go of and now I get to start over and regain the things that I thought I lost.’”
She continued, “If I’m honest, this record is in a world of its own as far as how it relates to me. This record is the reflection of a new beginning of something transformative that took place in my life. God came in and whispered to me that I have this purpose and a reason for what I do, and I don’t have to lose myself along the way.”
Daigle dropped the self-titled album in September 2023. Its track “Thank God I Do” received a RIAA Gold certification in December.
She previously recalled how God inspired that song.
“I literally went into the bathroom, I was like ‘God, I’m begging you, please give me a song, I need something to go in there with,’” Daigle recalled. “Those lyrics were some of my favorite things to come out of me, and that song, ‘Thank God I Do,’ is the first from the album. So that was the start of OK, there’s some magic in this.”
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