Christian music star Lauren Daigle is celebrating a full-circle moment after being tapped to perform at this year’s Super Bowl.
On Sunday, the 33-year-old singer will join jazz musician Trombone Shorty for a rendition of “America the Beautiful” during the Super Bowl pregame show at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Daigle’s performance in NOLA during one of the most-watched TV events in the world comes years after New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for her to be removed as a performer when the city hosted “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebration.”
“To get this moment years later, I would say for anybody watching that has had their reputations smeared in any sort of way and they are just waiting for the moment of vindication, sometimes it only takes five years,” Daigle told the “Arroyo Grande” podcast.
In 2020, Cantrell publicly lambasted Daigle after the two-time Grammy Award winner gave an impromptu performance at an outdoor prayer service, concert and rally hosted by Christian singer and worship leader Sean Feucht.
The event, near New Orleans’ famed Jackson Square in November 2020, was part of Feucht’s “Let Us Worship” tour, which also served as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions on churches.
