Like many before her, Lauren Daigle’s journey has not been without its challenges and the route often not as planned. But beneath her feet lies the road upon which she has traveled, and at its core is a determined, infectious spirit, whose deep-seated love of music reveals a singular talent.

Lauren’s next chapter opens on September 8th, when the 2x Grammy Award winner releases the full 23-track self-titled album, which Lauren explains, “is the completion of a journey that began when we first started writing for the album. I knew all along that we’d need to release these songs in two parts. This second part not only adds a lot of intensity, but it also reveals music that’s just as deep and meaningful to me.”

But she didn’t take music seriously until an illness kept her out of high school for two years, and she began taking voice lessons. She planned to enter the medical field and did mission work in Brazil before starting at Louisiana State University, where she would go on to lead the choir and commit to a lifetime in music. The success that started with her 2015 platinum debut album, How Can It Be, which produced three Number One songs—“First,” “O’ Lord,” and the Grammy-nominated “Trust in You”— accelerated with the GRAMMY®-winning Look Up Child, making Daigle a mainstay on the Billboard charts.