Grammy Winner Shares Bible-Based Back-to-School Advice
By Movieguide® Contributor
Lauren Daigle is sharing her advice for young people as they prepare to go back to school in the fall.
“See the people around you,” the Grammy Award winner said. “I think that it can be really lonely sometimes, and especially with social media and the difficulties that kids are facing, the amount of what they have to encounter when they wake up in the morning and begin school is something I didn’t have when I was in high school, I didn’t have when I was in middle school, I didn’t have when I was in college, and so I look at these kids, and I’m like, y’all are facing things that are beyond my scope [of] what I had to deal with.”
Daigle added, “But principles still remain the same. If you love your neighbor as yourself, you will see beautiful fruit…even the bully who hurts you, go in and say, ‘Even with the pain that you have caused me, I will choose to love you.’ Look at the person next to you that is being bullied and say, ‘Hey, I know how to be a friend to you in this time.’”
“Love the people around you and be the change, be the conduit of kindness into the community that you’re in, because there’s nothing like that feeling,” she concluded. “There’s nothing like bringing a smile to someone who has had a rough day, and you can do that whatever age you are.”
Daigle just announced her latest project, an album of live, reimagined versions of her songs called “Sessions.”
“I love that we’re able to share versions of these songs that people might not have heard before,” Daigle said of the project. “I think it’s what makes them special. I also thought it’d be cool to add something a little different, something we’ve never done before, so I thought what better, more poignant song is there than Joe Cocker’s ‘You Are So Beautiful.’ It’s up there on my list of all-time favorites.”
The singer-songwriter also recently celebrated some new RIAA certifications.
“Her 2018 record breaking album, ‘Look Up Child,’ was officially certified 2x Platinum,” a press release from RIAA reads. “The breakthrough album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart and solidified Daigle’s position as a mainstay on the charts. She also received a plaque honoring the Gold Certification of her single, ‘Thank God I Do,’ which is the lead single from Daigle’s 2023 self-titled album. It marks her 6th Billboard No. 1, making her the first artist to have two singles top the Top Christian Songs chart for more than 20 weeks.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Daigle’s latest single:
Christian artist Lauren Daigle recently shared the incredible true story that inspired her song, “New.”
“I was writing with this girl — her name is Natalie Hemby,” Daigle said in May. “Love her. She really helped breathe life into this record and helped me understand writing systems and patterns and things that I didn’t know still existed, which was really beautiful, just like writing from the heart in such a pure way.”
“But she had this friend and she came in with the song title. She was like, ‘I have this idea about a song called “New,”‘ and I said, ‘Okay what’s the point?’ And she said there’s this friend that she had back in the day. She was addicted to drugs, left her home, all the things. Her dad would write her all the time and say, ‘You are free to come home whenever. You are free to come home. You are loved you are free to come home whenever you want.’”
So, one day the young woman did return home. And she became a completely different person.
“She went to rehab,” Daigle said. “She got clean, everything, and my friend ended up meeting her years and years later, and she said, ‘Girl…I don’t even know the old you. I just know this new version, but that’s the only version I know.’ And she said, ‘Lauren, to look at my friend and think that that was ever a part of her life is wild.”
“I can’t believe that would be a reality of hers at some point because of how much God has changed her and set her free, and so that was the genesis of the song was that story and then weaving it in, we were like let’s make it something that’s like fun, that people can, you know, in all different walks of life can relate to,” Daigle said. “…It was kind of the idea storytelling element that we brought into it.”
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