By John Abdalla —
This is breaking news. Hit Christian pop artist Forrest Frank was showing his 2-year-old how to skateboard when he lost his balance and fell, smacking his back hard on the cement driveway of his house. He broke his L3 and L4 vertebrae.
But there was no moping. From his bed, Frank recorded a single, playing instruments and singing in bed, “God’s got my back,” an upbeat jingle that cracks you up about a cracked back. If you’re looking for a Christian who exemplifies joy in hardship, it must be Frank.
“Dads, this is your sign to get off the stick,” Frank wrote on IG. “It was just a casual session with my 2 year old so I didn’t even think to put a helmet on (hindsight is 20/20). Thankful to God that it wasn’t any worse. Multiple fractures to L3 & L4. Will be laying in bed for a while.”
He included a video of the back-smashing fall, which he got from security cameras. The video will make milk curdle, but Frank’s boundless buoyancy keeps you from feeling bad. “God’s got my back” is a catchy melody that could take off on its own merits, but the background story gives it extra oomph.
He was to be mostly bedbound for at least six weeks, maybe 12.
His recovery got cut short. After only two weeks, one day he went to get up his 2-year-old, Bodie. He realized only too late that he forgot to put on his back brace. Lifting up his son without the brace, he suddenly got the flash that he was painfree.
“And then I realize, wait, I’m not wearing my brace?” he says. “What is going on?”
He felt healed.
Still, he exercised caution, using the back brace even though he didn’t feel any need, while he scheduled another X-ray. Doctors were astounded. The fractures had been healed, he says.
A native of Fulshear, Texas, Frank does gender-bending music and has made inroads into the secular arena via IG reels and TikTok. His 2024 studio album Child of God sold 22,000 copies within the first week and held the top position on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart for 35 non-consecutive weeks.
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