Christian artist Forrest Frank had no words to describe how he felt when he received the news that he had been nominated for two Dove Awards, including for the Gospel Music Association’s (GMA) New Artist of the Year.
“Anything beyond people, even listening to my music…I can’t even fathom,” Frank told ChurchLeaders on the Dove Awards’ red carpet. “So this is just in the ‘I can’t fathom it’ realm. God gets all the glory.”
Frank, who started his music career in 2017 as one-half of the surf-pop group Surfaces, has taken Christian music listeners by storm after releasing his solo album, “Child of God,” earlier this summer.
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The 29-year-old singer-songwriter witnessed his latest album peak at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart this past August. Frank’s singles “UP!” featuring Connor Price, “Good Day,” “Never Get Used to This” featuring Jvke, and “God Is Good” have all been widely accepted by Christian radio and streaming listeners.
ChurchLeaders asked Frank how he stays focused on Christ in the midst of success.
“I think that God perfectly orchestrated my career to set me up to be where I’m at right now,” he said. “Where he actually gave me a very successful song earlier in my career, and I actually I got to feel it. I got to let it kind of puff me up a little bit.”
“Later in that career, we started turning down offers, started saying no to stuff, and I started to actually run away from the success and run away from it all,” Frank continued. “And in the peace and quiet of that, then this success came. And so now I just stay ground level. This entire time, I’ve stayed ground level.”
“All glory to Jesus,” he added. “And so anything up it’s just all to him.”
Frank encouraged other aspiring artists who “got it” to not give up. Success doesn’t happen overnight, Frank expressed, saying, “It took me seven years before I had any real traction, and I’m now eleven years into it.”
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