RootsTech 2025 Rachel Platten
RootsTech 2025 will feature Emmy Award-winning singer and songwriter Rachel Platten as a keynote speaker. Photo courtesy of FamilySearch International.All rights reserved.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.
In 2024, Platten performed at a concert during the Utah Area Young Single Adult Conference, where she joined Nashville-based singer and songwriter Ben Rector and Latter-day Saint jazz singer Emma Nissen.
Rachel Patten
Rachel Platten performs during the 2024 Utah Area Young Single Adult Conference concert at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Photo by Jeffrey D. Allred, courtesy of Church News. Copyright 2025 Deseret News Publishing Company.Platten will join other in-person RootsTech 2025 keynote speakers, renowned artist Dana Tanamachi and Olympic and Paralympic gold medalist couple Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall.
RootsTech virtual keynote speakers will be Nelson Mandela’s grandson Ndaba Mandela, Latin American social media family sensation Los Chicaneros, Italian entertainer Marco Lui, and Filipina YouTube singer Ysabelle Cuevas, available at RootsTech.org on March 6, 2025.
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