After a record-breaking year filled with Grammy wins and chart-topping songs, the music world can’t help but be mesmerized by the voice, heart, and passion of Lauren Daigle.
The singer’s album “Look Up Child” debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart last September, beating out big names like Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Drake, and Nicki Minaj. In March, Daigle won her first Grammys in both categories that she was nominated in: Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for “Look Up Child” and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for “You Say.”
With appearances on major TV platforms including “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” “Good Morning America,” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Daigle’s fame has only continued to skyrocket.
But life in the limelight won’t ever stop the artist from forgetting where she came from and her humble beginnings.
In a recent interview with Z100 studios in New York, the Lafayette, Louisiana native opened up about how her music career was actually inspired by a time when she was at her lowest, suffering from extreme illness.
At 15-years-old, Daigle was diagnosed with cytomegalovirus, an immune deficiency she described as an “extreme form of mono.”
“I was placed on homebound and that was when my mom said, ‘Hey we should start voice lessons,’ basically to say, ‘to keep you from depression, let’s keep you focused on music,’ ” she explained. “I fell in love, it became my healing. From that space, that’s where those songs come from.”
Though being isolated, sick, and homebound certainly had the potential to drag the singer down into a pit of depression, the time instead inspired a great deal of the music Daigle produces today.