Lauren Daigle will bring her Louisiana charm to Super Bowl LIX when she performs “America the Beautiful” with Trombone Shorty.
“Me and Lauren, we put together a very New Orleans brass band, street feel to it,” Shorty said during the Thursday, February 6, pregame press conference. “It merges some rhythms of Lafayette, where she’s from, and we just capture that moment. I think it’s going to be something that you can tap your feet to, but still respectable to the original.”
The 2025 Super Bowl will be held Sunday, February 9, at Louisiana’s Caesars Superdome. In addition to Daigle and Shorty, the NFL pregame will feature performances by Jon Batiste and Ledisi. (Batiste will belt the national anthem and Ledisi will croon “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”)
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Lauren Daigle Has Released 4 Studio Albums
Through her label Centricity Music, Daigle released her debut LP, How Can It Be, in 2015. She later dropped records Behold: A Christmas Collection, Look Up Child and Lauren Daigle, in addition to other EPs and singles.
Daigle has won four American Music Awards, six Billboard Music Awards and two Grammy Awards throughout her career. In 2019, she took home the Grammys for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. She was also nominated at the 2016 and 2017 ceremonies, respectively, in the same categories.
A Teenage Illness Inspired Her Faith Journey
After Daigle contracted cytomegalovirus when she was 15 years old, she was homebound for two years. In that period, she relied on her faith.
“I was too weak to sing,” she told Guideposts magazine in February 2019. “Why was this happening? Would I be like this for the rest of my life? What kind of life would that be? No life at all. Yet I just couldn’t imagine ever feeling better again. At 15, it felt as if my life were over. My dreams were just a joke. I sank deeper into despair. And still, the doctors could promise nothing. Rest, they said. But it felt like I was dying.”
At the time, Daigle “yearned for some escape” and turned to a daily devotional for comfort.
“I read that five-dollar devotional and listened for God’s voice,” she said. “Day after day, I kept going back to the loft, struggling up the stairs, pausing on each step to catch my breath. I’d always had a strong faith. Or thought I did. Now it was being tested beyond my endurance.”
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Lauren Daigle Has a Strict Vocal Regimen
Speaking on the Air1 radio show in May 2023, Daigle revealed she spends three hours each day on “vocal prep” before a show.
“I start off [with] a breathing therapist that helps me access exactly how to breathe with your diaphragm,” she said. “Opera singers are just amazing at it [and] I took opera at LSU and she said, ‘Are you going to continue to sing pop music?’ I said, ‘Of course, this is how I express myself. I love soul music.’”
To help, the therapist taught Daigle how to “sing from the diaphragm,” which is the healthiest way to perform.
After breath therapy, Daigle meets with a vocal therapist before warming up.
“She will literally touch my spine through the back of my trachea because all of those muscles get so sore,” the Grammy winner recalled of her vocal therapist. “She said, ‘The real singers love it [and] the ones who just petty-sing hate it.’ … I find it relaxing.”
The 2025 Super Bowl is a Hometown Show for Lauren Daigle
While Daigle was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, she was raised in the city of Lafayette. The big game takes place in New Orleans, which is approximately a two-hour drive from Daigle’s family home.
How Lauren Daigle Reacted to Performing at the Super Bowl
“When I got the call, I was freaking out,” she gushed during the Thursday press conference. “I was so excited, but the part that got me on my feet was when [Shorty] sent the rough draft of what we were going to be doing. When you plan it out, you think, ‘OK, maybe it’ll be a ballad or whatever,’ just because of how that song is originally. No, he said, ‘We’re going to put a little spin on this.’”
According to Daigle, it “feels so good” and “so alive” to reinvent the classic tune.
“It’s very true to the representation that we’re allowed to have in this city [and] it’s beautiful,” Daigle said. “I love the musicianship that comes out of this city and to be able to represent that means the world.”
