Hey everyone, it's Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living.

We're taking a quick break, but I wanted to reshare a conversation that I had with the Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle, who you can see on tour this spring and summer.

We'll be back next week with Today Show anchor, author, and South Carolinian Craig Melvin. See you soon.

Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans.

And in this episode, I'm talking with someone who began her music career as a Christian artist,

but who's more recently become a crossover sensation.

Lauren Daigle grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, where she

enjoyed fishing with her dad, dancing to Cajun music with her grandparents, and rooting for LSU

with her entire family, even the ones that went to Louisiana Tech. And while the rich musical

traditions of Cajun country influenced her, it was really the two years she spent sick

and homebound as a teenager that led her to pursue her dream career. With a new self-titled album

coming out and a growing legion of fans, Daigle is now sharing her soulfully raspy voice

and her deeply held faith with the world. We'll discuss all that and her dad's

shrimp and gutta grits on this week's Biscuits and Jam. Lauren Daigle, welcome to Biscuits

and Jam. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. So, Lauren, I've heard you say on your podcast that you hail from the deep swamps of Louisiana.

So tell me what you mean when you say that.

Well, I'm from Lafayette, Louisiana. And we grew up going to the Achafelai Basin to go tubing and skiing and wakeboarding.

And typically, you know, people go to a nice lake or whatever,

and we would fall off the tubes and immediately stick our feet up just so that no alligators got our toes.

So, yeah, that's what I mean by the deep swamps.

So did you grow up like hunting, fishing, frogging, you know, all that Louisiana sort of thing?

All of the above. Well, actually, I take that back. I still haven't gone frogging. But we grew up crabbing,

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