bright-eyed

“How easy it is to imagine you as you might have been some years ago, when these two strapping fellows were tiny boys in short pants...and baby Cassiopeia! If I close my eyes, I can just picture you as a bright-eyed infant, with scarlet hair that stood up like a plume in a lady’s hat.”

My dad was filming, documenting the event, and I was just a sixth-grader, bright-eyed like, wow.

Frank is the bright-eyed, mustachioed face of Christian music’s new wave: He has earned more than 1.2 billion on-demand streams in the U.S. in 2025, according to the data company Luminate.

In conversation, the singer is easygoing and bright-eyed, fond of punctuating sentences with “Hell, yeah!” when she’s fired up.

“I feel like we’re in one of those Sunday night dramas about two bright-eyed, feisty old lady detectives outsmarting the police at every turn.”