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How Lauren Daigle Stays Grounded
By Movieguide® Contributor
It would be easy for success to get to Lauren Daigle’s head with crossover hits like “You Say” and winning two Grammys, but the Louisiana native is determined to remember her humble roots.
“When you’re not grounded, if you find yourself experiencing pride or arrogance or any of that, it’s so isolating,” Daigle said. “Nobody wants to be friends with the person who thinks they’re better than everyone else [and] I like people way too much.”
The singer revealed she makes it a point to always come home every two weeks to her family and everyday life to help keep her humble.
“Being around family, being around loved ones, changing people’s diapers…and doing your laundry and waking up and making a breakfast in the morning, like those things that might sound like chores to some people are actually gifts,” she said on Hope 103.2’s UNDISTRACTED podcast. “And there is a stillness that you can find even in that I know a lot of my solitude moments come just folding laundry.”
“My family, they love me to the core and if I [were] a school teacher, a nurse, or a singer, they could care less. They just love me for who I am,” the 33-year-old went on to say.
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Daigle also sees the danger of people, especially the younger generation, idolizing fame.
“Fame can be a complete and total mirage,” she said.
But, Daigle believes, it can be used for good.
“It’s a brilliant and beautiful platform that you can impact lives in the most positive way, and it also comes with a world of responsibilities that kids don’t necessarily dream of,” the “Thank God I Do” singer said.
Daigle addresses the “celebration of fortune and fame” and how it can “ruin the next generation” with her song “Ego.”
Part of the lyrics read:
Stuck inside the game or just tryna find a place
For the stories we share are picture-perfect in every frame
We all wanna be known, but we’re afraid to be fully seen
Feel like we’re the only ones coverin’ up insecurity
Have we lost who we are to the pressure?
Oh, no
Tradin’ souls for the sake of the pleasure
I’m done wrestlin’ with my ego
Lord knows it, I feel so hollow
If you wanna go high, then you gotta bow low
If you wanna go deep, gotta rise above the shallow
I’m done wrestlin’ with my ego
Despite all the potential pitfalls of fame, Daigle knows that the platform she has is God-given and came out of a season of life nearly 20 years ago as she was battling an illness that kept her home-bound for two years.
“I remember saying, ‘God if you get me out of this, I’ll tell the world about the hope, I will sing about the hope, that I’ve found in You,’” she recalled.
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