Why Rachael Lampa Returned To Music: ‘I Fully Trust God’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Christian artist Rachael Lampa is sharing how she found her worth in Christ and why she’s decided to return to music.
Lampa’s music career began after she took part in a Christian music festival.
“Immediately coming off stage, I got approached by a few record labels, and that’s kind of where that whole madness started,” she explained. “When I was twenty-one, I started to feel like I couldn’t find my voice in all the noise, and I couldn’t find God’s voice, and I couldn’t tell which one was which or, who was my managers, my record label, my peers, my fans. Like, I think there were a lot of people that were speaking into my life at the time, and I just couldn’t find God’s voice anymore, and I started to just feel really burnt out.”
After talking with her older brother and “feeling God’s voice and God’s hand in my life,” Lampa made the difficult decision to walk away from her successful career.
“Stepping away from music and people and constant input on my life was a really, really big adjusting process,” she continued. “I had to learn how to trust myself again and to trust that God’s voice was inside of me.”
Lampa used her time away from the spotlight to “reconnect” with God and reclaim her worth.
“It made the music part of me wake up again because that was my response to just such beauty and such a story,” she explained. “This is like calling out that thing in me that wanted to make music in the first place because something is coming alive in me also.”
Today, Lampa decided to return to the music industry and share her songs with the world.
“I finally feel like I am making music out of a place of freedom instead of striving,” she explained. “A lot of my identity was wrapped up in achievement and performance when I was younger. Now I just feel like I get to do it because I enjoy it and I get to make music about things I care about and love.”
“I fully trust God, and He has just been honestly blowing me away,” she said.
Her latest release, “Somebody To You,” explores those feelings of confusion and loss of purpose.
“When I walked away from my record deal, my life of music and touring when I was 21, I thought I totally ruined Gods plan for my life and had lost my purpose,” Lampa wrote in an Instagram post. “In reality, He was just quieting the applause so I could hear him tell me that my identity in this life begins and ends with the fact that I am a child of God and that that’s all the purpose I will ever need. I hope this song is a reminder that no one can tell us who we are, because He has already called us His.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Lampa’s return to music:
Lampa stepped back from her music career, but in 2020, she began to “dream again” of making new music.
“Now that I am doing it again, I’m still letting it go,” she said. “I think that those are the words that God has given me to stay in that place.”
The idea of letting go is one that Lampa continually returns to, saying, “That’s been the survival, the theme. That’s how I stay close to God because I’m like, ‘this is scary.’ You know, letting anything go is scary. But, it’s also we’re free to, you know, feel free. Yeah, there’s trust, and there’s freedom.”
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