Louisiana native Lauren Daigle is celebrating what she sees as “vindication” after performing at the pregame show for the Super Bowl.
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The 33-year-old Christian recording artist joined jazz musician Trombone Shorty on Sunday for a rendition of “America the Beautiful” at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Daigle’s participation in the major sporting event is an about-face from her experience five years ago, when the “You Say” singer-songwriter was scrubbed from Dick Clark Productions’ annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve celebration because New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat, wanted the artist to face retribution for performing at an outdoor worship event in 2020, violating a public health guidance.
That event was organized and led by California worship leader and activist Sean Feucht.
At the time, Cantrell said, “[Daigle] harmed our people, she risked the lives of our residents, and she strained our first responders in a way that is unconscionable — in the midst of a public health crisis. This is not who we are, and she cannot be allowed to represent New Orleans or the people she willfully endangered.”
But now, five years later, Daigle is feeling liberated as she prepares to perform on one of the world’s biggest stages in her home state.
Appearing on Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo’s podcast, “Arroyo Grande,” Daigle said she was feeling vindicated from the way she was treated by Cantrell.
“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,” she told Arroyo.
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