Lauren Daigle

Lauren Ashley Daigle ( DAY-gəl; born September 9, 1991) is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter. After being signed to the label Centricity Music, she released her debut album, How Can It Be, in 2015. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart, has been certified Platinum by the RIAA and produced three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart ("First", "Trust in You", and "O'Lord"). Daigle's third studio album, Look Up Child, was released in September 2018. Bolstered by the pop crossover success of the single "You Say", it went on to debut at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the highest-charting Christian album by a woman in over 20 years, and No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums chart, with 115,000 album-equivalent units sold in the first week. The album's lead single, "You Say", peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and had broken the record for the number of weeks at No. 1 on any chart by spending 132 weeks atop the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, until Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" spent 371 weeks on the World Digital Songs chart. The album and single earned Daigle two Grammy Awards. At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019, Daigle won Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for Look Up Child and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for "You Say". In addition to two Grammy Awards, Daigle has won twelve GMA Dove Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, and has had four No. 1 singles on both the Billboard Christian Airplay and Hot Christian Songs charts. Daigle has experienced significant success in mainstream pop music, leading the New York Times to remark that as an explicitly Christian artist, she "has crossed over...