Lauren Daigle delivered a heartfelt surprise to a 12-year-old survivor of the deadly Camp Mystic flood in Texas, after the girl's rewritten version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" went viral.
Skyler Darrington Skyler, who lost 27 fellow campers in the July 4th disaster, performed her tribute live on Fox and Friends talk show, singing: “They say the water overcame / But I will never forget their names… / The holy and the broken hallelujah.”
“I wrote it in honour of all the girls at our camp,” she explained. “It was just to sing and remind people what has happened.”
Daigle, moved to tears, told Skyler: “You took the tragedy and turned it into something beautiful. That’s so telling of your faith.”
Skyler’s cabin was one of the hardest hit, but camp leaders managed to rescue her and some of her peers.
Her parents raced through the night with no communication to find her safe. “That event really helped my faith grow,” Skyler said.
Daigle also revealed she’ll release Let It Be a Hallelujah, a long-shelved song, on 1st August. “Sometimes God asks you to wait,” she said.
Meanwhile, Christian artists like Cory Asbury are helping flood victims, raising over $25,000 (£19,000) at a benefit concert.