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FamilySearch announced Friday, February 28, 2025, that the final RootsTech 2025 keynote speaker is Emmy Award-winning singer and songwriter Rachel Platten.
Platten, who has millions of listeners and followers online, will take the main stage on the first day of RootsTech, which runs March 6–8, 2025. She will share her story of discovering and rediscovering herself, a journey that unexpectedly produced her career-changing track “Fight Song.”
RootsTech guests can see Platten’s keynote, which will include a musical performance, in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake, or they can watch for free virtually at RootsTech.org.
Platten, who now has 4.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, started classical piano training at age 5 and took up guitar in high school. In the early 2000s, she worked as an on-call vocalist for over 50 musicians and, to this day, is part of a program where she sings bedside to hospital patients.
Platten’s most famous song, “Fight Song,” which was originally written at a time when she needed a personal anthem of hope, was released in 2015 and proved to be the big break she had been working toward. Today, the song has received over 1 billion streams on Spotify. Platten married attorney and restaurateur Kevin Lazan in 2010. They have two young daughters to whom her 2023 single “Girls” is dedicated.
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