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Christian singer-songwriter Lauren Daigle has able affiliated career advance over the able year, afterward a blemish 2015.
["485"]17 best Lyrics images on Pinterest | Bible verses quotes ... | light of the world lauren daigle lyricsHer aboriginal feature album, How Can It Be, spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart, alpha May 2, 2015, and has awash 484,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen Music. Daigle co-wrote nine of the 12 songs on the album.
Her new anniversary set, Behold: A Christmas Collection, accustomed on the Nov. 5, 2016-dated blueprint and has able No. 3.
Daigle has already formed up four top 10s on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs chart. Her barrage single, the How Can It Be appellation track, climbed to No. 5; "First" able No. 2; and "Trust in You" became her aboriginal No. 1. On Christian Airplay, the songs hit Nos. 6, 1 and 1, respectively. (She added a anniversary top 10 on Hot Christian Songs in 2015 as featured on Chris Tomlin's No. 4-peaking "Noel.")
Currently, on the Hot Christian Songs blueprint anachronous Dec. 3, Daigle's latest single, "Come Alive (Dry Bones)," ranks at its No. 12 peak. The 25-year-old Lafayette, Louisiana, built-in has accustomed her allotment of accolades in 2016, including three wins at the 47th anniversary Dove Awards, captivated Oct. 11 in Nashville. The three trophies Daigle agitated abroad included the better of the night, for artisan of the year, as able-bodied as songwriter of the year (artist) and best pop/contemporary song of the year for "Trust in You."
She additionally garnered her aboriginal Grammy Award nomination, for best abreast Christian anthology for How Can It Be. (The 2017 Grammy Awards booty abode on Feb. 12 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.)
Meanwhile, Daigle's touring agenda this year included her aboriginal amphitheatre shows, aperture for Hillsong United, and her aboriginal headlining assignment in October.
As 2016 apprehension down, Daigle chatted with Billboard about her cyclone of a year, her Christmas plans, what's abutting and more.
What a year for you. You've absolutely able a lot. How does it feel as you attending aback on it?
It's crazy, as I absolutely accept to you say that and ask me about 2016, because I've been activity non-stop. This accomplished year has been a lot of shock for me, honestly. I adulation that, too, because it's all a accident and the bigger the chance is, the added fun it is. This year has been one of blame boundaries, demography big affairs and accepting out of my abundance zone. I aloof feel like I am at the accomplishment band for the year but there's more.
We're accepting accessible to go on a Christmas bout with for King & Country (beginning Nov. 29 in Tampa, Fla.) and I adulation those guys. They're such abundant guys, so aback they asked, I was like, sure, let's go, because for me, it's all about, "Is this activity to be a air-conditioned hang?" I'll be aperture for them. In the past, I got acclimated to blockage home for the holidays, but now the attitude is actuality reset, to actuality on the road. Essentially, attractive aback on all of the work, I feel like with this accessible tour, we're putting a stamp, the final touch, on 2016.
How Can It Be has now awash about 500,000 copies. Did you accept any abstraction aback you recorded it that it would be accustomed so well?
["465.6"]Light of the World - Lauren Daigle - YouTube | light of the world lauren daigle lyricsReally, no. I had no abstraction aback we recorded it that it would be that big, not close. I didn't absolutely apperceive how able-bodied it would be received. So, aback I apprehend you say that, that it awash that many, it aloof makes me shutter. It did feel beyond than activity aback I was recording it. Article big was accident that I ability not accept been in ascendancy of. So now, attractive aback and audition that big number, I anticipate wow, 500,000 people. My achievement is that all of them encountered the affection of God as I did. That's consistently my hope.
The new Christmas album, Behold, was produced by Paul Mabury and Jason Ingram, the aforementioned guys who produced How Can It Be. It has a absolute applesauce feel to it, with the horns added to the mix, and it hit me, this could accept been recorded in the '40s or '50s. Did that appear from your Louisiana background, growing up with that influence?
Absolutely, it comes from my Louisiana roots. Aback I aboriginal confused to Nashville and started writing, I was aching to apprehend some acceptable applesauce and blot it to enhance my autograph process. I had a admiration to actualize music with a faculty of applesauce history and I capital to address and actualize music with a applesauce bend to it. Forth the way, I met Paul Mabury, who is from Australia and has faculty of applesauce and its history, so it was an amazing affiliation to accept him as a ability and autograph partner.
So, yeah, I consistently capital to do a applesauce album. I aloof had no abstraction that it would appear in the authoritative of a Christmas record. For me it all comes from actuality steeped in that adulation for New Orleans, walking through the French Quarter, backward at night, and audition the sounds of, say, a saxophone actuality played, advancing out of nowhere. I adulation that. Someday I achievement to do a applesauce club tour.
The Behold anthology includes mainly acceptable Christmas songs and one aboriginal cut, "Light of the World." "Light" was originally your blueprint admission in 2014, peaking at No. 16 on Hot Christian Songs. You wrote that with Paul Mabury and Paul Duncan, and I heard that you all wrote it over Skype. How crazy was that?
[Laughs] I know. I was sitting there in Louisiana and Paul and Paul were in Nashville. As the autograph action progressed, I was cerebration about the 400 years amid the Old and New Testaments in the Bible, aback God was bashful for 400 years. There was calmness in the world, bodies were searching. I admiration how that anxious was for bodies active then. To be honest, it affectionate of reminds me of today and the anxious in people. As I anticipate about those abounding years of silence, I anticipate of the cry of a baby. We put these belief in a alongside position in the lyrics, abutting to our music and acquisitive for an ultimate affiliation with people, through God.
You gave the song a altered analysis on this anthology than its aboriginal recording. And it was originally appear on a accumulation LP by your label, Centricity Christmas: Joy to the World. Did you appetite to accord it a home on one of your albums?
Yes, for sure. As the assuming of the song acquired and I was additionally evolving, I capital to put it on the new anthology and accord it a accomplished altered complete from the original.
In 2015, you toured with Chris Tomlin and sang advance vocals on "Noel," which he co-wrote for his Adore: Christmas Songs of Worship LP. Aback I talked with Chris about it, he said that during that allotment of the concert, aback you'd appear out for "Noel," that it would aloof stop the crowd. What is that like for you onstage?
Wow. Aboriginal of all, that bout was revolutionary. It let us awning so abundant ground. There was article so aberrant about that song. But here's the thing, some bodies appear to a concert to be entertained. Some appear acquisitive for a Godly connection. For me, as an artist, I feel the weight that I appetite to be able to bear on what they're there for. So, in a moment, such as assuming a appropriate song like "Noel," and arresting the audience's reaction, in those moments, I can absolutely feel the weight appropriation off my amateur and it's freeing. For me, those moments, that's the best place.
I feel annoyed aloof allurement about all of the assignment that you did in 2016. Do you accept affairs to booty a breach and re-energize?
["485"]17 best Lyrics images on Pinterest | Bible verses quotes ... | light of the world lauren daigle lyricsOh yes. You know, with my team, we consistently allocution about whatever the activity is afore adage yes or no. The catechism is, "Is this article that aloof moves us an inch or will it strengthen the marathon?" The absolute adventure has to be advised as if it's a marathon, not a sprint. You know, I accept been continued this able year, and absolutely in charge of a break. I appetite to be absolutely bent aback I do my abutting album. I never appetite to aloof accomplish a arrangement obligation.
So in adjustment to do that and do it with determination, I accept to rest. So yeah, I am demography best of January through April off in 2017. There will be a few appearances in that time frame, but for the best part, I'll be demography time to appraise what's next.
You're a Christian artisan who seems to accept a ample faculty of faith. As you get added and added popular, how do you accumulate it all in analysis and not let distinction booty over?
I anticipate and adjure about that a lot. Fundamentally, I accept a aggregation of bodies about me who are all friends, but aren't abashed to claiming me or disagree. And I catechism myself as well. It's healthy. For instance, if I appetite to buy something, I accept to ask, "Do I charge that, whatever it is, or is it artlessly the desires of absent to be a brilliant and extend it with materialism?" Aback I go aback to Louisiana I appetite to be the aforementioned actuality that my accompany bethink me as. It's so important to me.
We fabricated a accommodation that aback we go out on the alley this time that we'll break in bargain hotels. We try and accomplish choices that will accumulate us grounded.
Have you met abounding artists that you accept abnormally affiliated with?
There accept been plenty, and Amy Grant comes to apperception first. Aback I got to Nashville, she was aloof actual admiring and giving, and she's aloof so down-to-earth. She absolutely aggressive me. I achievement to be like that.
Would you accede a affiliation or accord of some affectionate with an artisan alfresco the Christian music community?
Yes… do you apperceive anyone? Seriously, my affection is to aloof go advanced as far as I can, authoritative music that I adulation and seeing area the adventure takes me. In abounding means the able year has created a bare slate for me, in that I am accessible to anything. It's appealing exciting.
I saw you in Nashville at the Bridgestone Amphitheatre (July 20), aperture for Hillsong United. What was that acquaintance like, arena a big area and aperture for an act with a huge following?
It was a fun, amazing and challenging. The aboriginal leg of the bout absolutely pushed me to footfall up my game, which is abundant -- you appetite that. By the time we did the additional leg, I was centered and acquainted it all bang into gear. It was an absurd experience.
["776"]More Than a Song - Discovering the Truth of Scripture Hidden in ... | light of the world lauren daigle lyricsIn October you did a abbreviate run, headlining a cord of shows for the aboriginal time. Was it alarming at first, and what are your bout affairs for 2017?
I went into the headlining bout with the ambition of aloof digging my heels into the ground. I abstruse a lot from the bodies that I accept opened up for so far and feel that accomplishing a few concerts as a amateur set me up for 2017, actuality accessible for anything. I am honest with myself in that I'm not as far forth as I seek to be yet. So, I attending at it this way: that the date is my acquaintance to booty from and be accessible for the abutting round. I appetite to aloof see area it goes.
As far as abutting year, I will be accomplishing two tours, but capacity aren't final yet.
How Can It Be led Billboard's Top Christian Albums blueprint for six weeks. Congratulations, that's absolutely a ride, abnormally for a aboriginal album. What are your affairs for recording a new album?
Truly, I am abashed that the anthology is still selling. I aloof think, "What in the apple is activity on?" And, yes, I am autograph and advancing for the abutting album. I appetite to be a acceptable abettor and accomplish abiding what's in my affection is what God wants, and again already it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the aback end. I aboveboard acquisition joy in not knowing.
How and aback do you write?
I adulation co-writing. That accomplished action is a claiming in that acceptable writers are blame you. I am consistently autograph and afresh I accept been autograph solo.
That's absorbing as, in both pop and country, for instance, there are about no hits now accounting by one person. Do you see article that you've accounting yourself acceptable a single?
Wow. I wasn't aware. So assumption what, I booty that as a challenge.
What is your achievement for bodies to get from your songs, to booty abroad from your music?
I accept so abounding things on that list, but simply, love. My achievement is that bodies acquaintance the music and, in that, article works in them, that they apprehend how aberrant they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do article abundant in their own lives. I appetite God to be speaking louder than the music.
["1862.4"]Lauren Daigle - Light Of The World (Lyric Video) - YouTube | light of the world lauren daigle lyricsFinally, what are your Christmas plans?
It's been a fun, crazy year, so I appetite to go home and see some friends. I'm goin' aback to the swamp.
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