By Michaela Gordoni
While thinking about an upcoming writer’s retreat, Lauren Daigle came to an epiphany that labeling an artist takes their voice away, including her own.
“In order to prepare for this writing trip, I want to start listening to old voice memos. I have like thousands and thousands of voice memos on my phone,” she told Jeff Cavins in a new interview. “Thousands from like back in 2010.
“I was like, I need to go and see what’s in there, but I’m going to start at the very very beginning,” she said. “And so I started in a season prior to Look Up Child… That record was my most successful record, right?”
That record was made after she was ever labelled as a certain kind of artist.
“It was a voice that hadn’t seen, hadn’t known what was coming. And then I listen to voice memos… now, and there’s a different sort of structure. The freedom of my melodies are completely different,” she said.
“I could hear so much more freedom in my voice previous to the Lookup Child era, if you will. And I pulled the car over and I had a moment of just saying, ‘God, what has happened? What have I done?’” she said.
She understood that she had changed because she was labelled.
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“My prayer is, God, in the midst of it happening, help me stay true to who you have made me to be,” she said. “Help me not to allow anything exterior to inhibit the creativity that you’re pouring in me that you want to pour through me because there’s other lives at hand.”
She also told Cavins about how songs help people pray.
“My previous producer, his name is Paul Mabry… used to say, ‘Lauren, if you have a prayer to pray, somebody else probably has that same prayer. And if you sing the prayers that you pray, it will give it it’ll help other people. I’m sure if you have to pray it, somebody else probably has to pray it,’” Daigle explained.
She understands that people sometimes don’t have the words to say, and songs help them express prayers to God.
“That’s the beauty of songs is that you can put language in the mouth of someone who’s been longing to connect the words to the feeling, whose been longing to connect the experience to the prayer. And for me, that’s everything,” she gushed. “That’s like the highest honor is to be able to give people language to pray to God.”
Daigle says there is a liturgical process to songs, too.
“Like holding a prayer and reading it over and over and how it becomes immersed in your being,” she said. “I think that is a beautiful thing about the Catholic Church… It’s just like wow, there are some powerful prayers that… [brings] everybody all together to be in prayer together and to have this exchange.”
On Mar. 27, Daigle celebrated the release of her song, “You Lead Me.”
“This song tells that no matter the crossroads we encounter, God’s hand is there through it all,” she said.
The song was created for HOUSE OF DAVID, Season 2, which came out the same day.
Daigle also participated in another David project, DAVID the animated movie, in which she sings and plays the role of Rebecca.
She said of the movie, “I hope that it blesses the world!
No matter what she’s involved in, Daigle hopes her listeners understand her authentic heart and share in her love for God.
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