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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk128665026"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Forrest Frank: Child Of God Tour Part 2 Coming to Foster Pavilion April 22<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk128665026"><b><i>Student ticket pre-sale begins Feb. 26, with tickets on sale for the public Feb. 28<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Contact: Lori Fogleman, Baylor University Media and Public Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">254-709-5959 | </span><a href="mailto:Lori_Fogleman@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Lori_Fogleman@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> |
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Media Contact: </span></b><a href="mailto:Lori_Fogleman@baylor.edu"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lori Fogleman</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">WACO, Texas (Feb. 21, 2025) – Following the massive success of his 2024 national tour, GRAMMY-nominee and double Dove Award-winning artist
<a href="https://forrestfrank.com/">Forrest Frank</a> will bring his 2025 Child Of God Tour Part 2 to Baylor University’s Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. It’s the first ticketed concert event in the 7,000-seat venue that opened
in January 2024 as home to Baylor’s men’s and women’s basketball programs.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Student ticket pre-sale will begin Wednesday, Feb. 26. Tickets will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28. More details will be announced soon at
<a href="https://fosterevents.web.baylor.edu/">baylor.edu/fosterevents</a>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Opening for Frank is <a href="https://www.claireleslie.com/">
Claire Leslie</a>, a rising singer-songwriter and worship leader from San Antonio. Leslie’s music has rapidly gained popularity on social media, where she tells stories from her life experiences and faith journey through a colorful, alternative pop sound.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Amid a sold-out national tour promoting the August release of his debut Christian album CHILD OF GOD, Frank’s rise to international fame has been unprecedented. Previously touring and performing as a member of the viral hit-producing
duo Surfaces, Frank followed his calling to produce a Christian album that would resonate with and inspire young people to know the love of Christ.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Frank’s CHILD OF GOD held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Christian Albums Chart for 17 weeks, making it the biggest Christian album debut of 2024. CHILD OF GOD also took the No. 1 spot on iTunes across all genres – not just for Christian
music – within days of its release. <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Within a few months’ time, it tallied over 1 billion global streams.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CHILD OF GOD earned Frank his first
</span>GRAMMY-Award nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album as well as GMA Dove Award wins for New Artist of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year with the album track “GOOD DAY.” His radio single off the album, “NEVER GET USED TO THIS”
featuring JVKE, reached No. 6 on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot Christian Songs chart and No. 3 on the Christian Streaming Songs chart. The song “NO LONGER BROUND,” with Hulvey, reached No. 2 on the U.S. Viral Top 50 chart on Spotify with more than 78 million streams
and counting.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">On Nov. 1, Frank released the CHILD OF GOD (DELUXE) album featuring seven new tracks, including “YOUR WAY’S BETTER” and “HEAVEN ON THIS EARTH” with Torey D’Shaun. Frank kept things moving along with a new holiday original, “THE PRESENT,” which
received a slew of adds from stations before Thanksgiving.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In addition to awards, album sales and radio hits, the momentum Frank has generated with his music is explained in the massive and continued growth on his socials, with a base that has boomed to nearly 5 million fans on
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiforrest">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@hiforrest">
YouTube</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiforrestt">TikTok</a> alone, and nearly 6 million
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/1scVfBymTr3CeZ4imMj1QJ">Spotify</a> monthly listeners.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Bucking conventional wisdom that recording success would only come in hubs like Los Angeles, New York or Nashville, Baylor graduates Frank, B.B.A. ’17, and his wife, Grace, B.A. ’19, chose to lay down roots in Waco, underlying his commitment
to serving and supporting his local community and the Baylor Family. This fall, Frank’s “NEVER GET USED TO THIS” with JVKE was the
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvhVWqRiUQ&feature=youtu.be">soundtrack of Baylor University’s new institutional television commercial</a> for 2024-2025, which showcases the authentic Baylor experience and supports one of the University’s fastest-rising
graduates in the entertainment industry.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In January, Baylor University <a href="https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/baylor-partners-noise-new-media-bring-live-entertainment-events-foster-pavilion">
engaged</a> Nashville-based entertainment and digital marketing agency <a href="https://www.noisenewmedia.com/">
Noise New Media</a> LLC to elevate the University’s concert programming and live event experiences at the Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion and other campus venues. Additional concert and performance announcements will be coming soon.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For more information about events at Foster Pavilion, visit
<a href="https://fosterevents.web.baylor.edu/">baylor.edu/fosterevents</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>LEARN MORE ABOUT FORREST FRANK<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Full bio</b>:<b> </b>Foster Pavilion events <a href="https://fosterevents.web.baylor.edu/forrest-frank">
website</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Official website</b>: <a href="https://forrestfrank.com/">
forrestfrank.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Media Contact: </b>Velvet Kelm, <a href="mailto:velvet@themcollective.com">velvet@themcollective.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Social Media</b>: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiforrest">
Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@hiforrest">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiforrestt">
TikTok</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/1scVfBymTr3CeZ4imMj1QJ">Spotify</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAIRE LESLIE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Official website</b>: <a href="https://www.claireleslie.com">
claireleslie.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Social media</b>: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/clairelesliesings/">
Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clairelesliesings">YouTube</a> and
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5GkuwRdmvp8r48JCPwqM7E">Spotify</a> </p>
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in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 12 nationally recognized academic divisions. Learn more about Baylor University at
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