“Vindication”: Christian Singer to Perform At Super Bowl After Being ‘Cancelled’

Grammy-winning Christian musician Lauren Daigle is scheduled to perform at Super Bowl LIX, which is happening this Sunday at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, LA.

She will be singing her rendition of America the Beautiful during the pregame show.

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Lauren Daigle will perform “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl pregame show in New Orleans alongside Trombone Shorty, marking a full-circle moment after previous controversy. In 2020, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for Daigle’s removal from a New Year’s Eve… pic.twitter.com/QdvKMlgot2

— TheSeekingSeagull (@TSSeagull) February 6, 2025

The 33-year-old Louisiana native is calling the opportunity “vindication” after she was cancelled by the Mayor of New Orleans several years ago.

In 2020, Lauren Daigle was to participate in ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebration,’ which was being hosted in New Orleans — until Mayor LaToya Cantrell called for her removal over her participation at an outdoor prayer service, where many participants refused to wear masks in protest of oppressive pandemic-era mandates.

Lauren Daigle spoke to Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo about her feelings of vindication over this:

Grammy winner @Lauren_Daigle will open #SuperBowlLIX this weekend. On a new ARROYO GRANDE she recalls 2020, when she sang outdoors and the Mayor of New Orleans claimed she had violated her Covid rules. The mayor cancelled the singer’s planned national performance. Now Daigle is… pic.twitter.com/v2SwgiZF1v

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) February 5, 2025

Sean Feucht, another Christian artist who performed alongside Daigle at the controversial prayer service back in 2020 congratulated her:

After being cancelled for leading worship with me, @Lauren_Daigle is singing at the Super Bowl this weekend!

Vindication is coming. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼https://t.co/dQF4l03HKd

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) February 6, 2025

More from The New York Post:

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.”

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Daigle joined Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo for an appearance on the “Arroyo Grande” podcast during which she explained feeling vindicated as she prepares to perform on one of the biggest stages in the world.

“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.

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According to The Times-Picayune, the event drew several hundred attendees, many of whom went mask-less in defiance of local public health orders.

Afterward, Cantrell blasted Daigle for participating in the event and later sent a harsh letter to the producers of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve” to demand that the Lafayette, Louisiana, native be banned from performing.

At the time, Daigle issued a statement explaining she was riding her bike when she spontaneously decided to stop by Feucht’s event since he was a longtime friend. She told Arroyo her performance was not planned in advance, and Feucht asked her to sing.

In her statement, Daigle wrote that she was “disappointed that my spontaneous participation has become part of the political discourse, and I’m saddened by the divisive agendas of these times.”

Times are changing, for the better!

Let us pray our nation and culture continues turning in the direction of Christ…

Will you be watching Lauren Daigle’s performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday?