Christian singer says Super Bowl performance is 'vindication' after being canceled by New Orleans mayor

Christian euphony prima Lauren Daigle is celebrating a full-circle infinitesimal aft being tapped to execute astatine this year's Super Bowl.

On Sunday, the 33-year-old vocalist volition articulation jazz instrumentalist Trombone Shorty for a rendition of "America the Beautiful" during the Super Bowl pregame show astatine the Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans. 

Daigle's show successful NOLA during 1 of the most-watched TV events successful the satellite comes years aft New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for her to beryllium removed arsenic a performer erstwhile the metropolis hosted "Dick Clark's New Year’s Rockin' Eve Celebration."

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Daigle joined Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo for an quality connected the "Arroyo Grande" podcast during which she explained feeling vindicated arsenic she prepares to execute connected 1 of the biggest stages successful the world.

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Christian euphony prima Lauren Daigle is celebrating a full-circle infinitesimal aft being tapped to execute astatine this year's Super Bowl. (Getty)

"To get this infinitesimal years later, I would accidental for anybody watching that has had their reputations smeared successful immoderate benignant of mode and they are conscionable waiting for the infinitesimal of vindication, sometimes it lone takes 5 years," Daigle told the "Arroyo Grande" podcast. 

In 2020, Cantrell publically lambasted Daigle aft the two-time Grammy Award winner gave an impromptu show astatine an outdoor supplication service, performance and rally hosted by Christian vocalist and worship person Sean Feucht.

The event, adjacent New Orleans' famed Jackson Square successful November 2020, was portion of Feucht's "Let Us Worship" tour, which besides served arsenic a protestation against COVID-19 restrictions connected churches. 

According to The Times-Picayune, the lawsuit drew respective 100 attendees, galore of whom went mask-less successful defiance of section nationalist wellness orders.

On Sunday, the 33-year-old vocalist volition articulation jazz instrumentalist Trombone Shorty for a rendition of "America the Beautiful" during the Super Bowl pregame astatine the Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans.  (Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images)

Afterward, Cantrell blasted Daigle for participating successful the lawsuit and aboriginal sent a harsh missive to the producers of "Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve" to request that the Lafayette, Louisiana, autochthonal beryllium banned from performing.

At the time, Daigle issued a connection explaining she was riding her motorcycle erstwhile she spontaneously decided to halt by Feucht's lawsuit since helium was a longtime friend. She told Arroyo her show was not planned successful advance, and Feucht asked her to sing. 

In her statement, Daigle wrote that she was "disappointed that my spontaneous information has go portion of the governmental discourse, and I’m saddened by the divisive agendas of these times."

Daigle besides confirmed that though she had been progressive successful talks with the producers of "Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve," she was ne'er a confirmed performer for the TV special.

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"I would person been, and inactive would be, honored to correspond our metropolis connected New Year’s Eve, and though I was alert of discussions regarding my involvement, an connection was ne'er made," she said.

While speaking with Arroyo, Daigle noted she was "definitely not invited" to the telecast and shared her absorption to Cantrell's letter.

"I deliberation from that letter, too, she quoted, 'She's a limb to society,'" Daigle recalled. "And I went location to Lafayette, and I got successful my parents' furniture and I pulled the covers implicit my caput arsenic an adult. I was like, ‘Gosh, present we are again.’ Because present there's nary magnitude of nationalist ridicule that is fun."

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Daigle joined Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo for an quality connected the "Arroyo Grande Podcast" during which she explained that she felt vindicated arsenic she prepares to execute connected 1 of the biggest stages successful the world. (Eric McCandless via Getty Images)

Looking back, Daigle said she had a antithetic position astir the controversy.

"What I learned is that erstwhile radical request an constituent of hope, coming unneurotic is 1 of the astir beauteous things," she said. "It is 1 of the astir unthinkable rights that we person successful this country. It is. And I deliberation to instrumentality that distant from radical is truthful disheartening, particularly successful a clip similar that."

Now Daigle volition instrumentality the signifier successful New Orleans arsenic the metropolis hosts the Super Bowl for the archetypal clip since 2013.

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The vocalist told Arroyo she was successful disbelief erstwhile Trombone Shorty called her to inquire if she would execute "America the Beautiful" with him astatine Sunday's game.

"I picked up the phone, and determination was a small spot of, ‘Is this real? Is this really going to happen? Is it real?’ I privation to cognize that it's real," she recalled. "And past it became a ‘Yeah, it was real.’ It was a existent call. And I was tickled."

Daigle besides shared immoderate details astir what fans tin expect from her show with chap Louisiana autochthonal Shorty. She told Arroyo Shorty's statement of the classical patriotic opus volition wage tribute to some New Orleans and her hometown.

"He said, 'You know, I wanted to springiness a chapeau extremity to New Orleans due to the fact that we're here. But I besides cognize you're from Lafayette. So, I wanted to springiness a chapeau extremity to Lafayette.' So, helium came up with this statement that rhythmically suits some places,'" Daigle said.

Daigle besides shared that her rendition volition beryllium influenced by her Christian roots. The instrumentalist said she began to signifier the opus aft receiving Shorty's call.

"I instantly tried to deliberation … however does it consciousness the astir quality successful my voice?" Daigle said. "How volition it chopped done to this generation, the property that we are surviving successful close now, the governmental clime that we're surviving successful close now? How tin I usage this opus to chopped done to radical who mightiness beryllium jaded toward our state oregon mightiness not emotion what we person successful this state oregon what we've built successful this country?

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"How tin I usage this song? And the line, and I'm not trying to dependable cliché astatine each due to the fact that I know, ‘Hello, Christian,' whatever. But erstwhile it says, ’God shed His grace connected me,' that line, it conscionable truly gripped maine to the halfway successful a way," she added. 

"I've sang songs implicit talking astir God, right? But erstwhile you spot a opus that is meant for thing else, and it inactive includes the powerfulness of God successful it … it's meant to grant our federation and amusement the quality of our nation. Right? But they besides cognize God has done thing for this nation. There's thing unsocial astir this. To beryllium capable to sing that opus with a existent condemnation versus just, 'Yeah, I'm conscionable going to leap up connected signifier and person this opportunity.'"