Cargando...Frère Sourire is the artist name of Filip Steeno (°Leuven – Belgium).
Between 1980-1996 Filip was a successful drummer who played in different bands in different styles: punk rock, folk rock, pop rock, straight rock, big band, brass band, symphony orchestra (timpani), percussion ensemble. He also worked as a session drummer on different recordings and played on different hit songs in Belgium.
In 1996 Filip saw the Light, quit his job, entered the monastery and became a monk of the order of Saint Benedict. After his studies of philosophy and theology he was ordained priest on February the 17th 2007. During this ceremony he played the drums with a few fellow musicians. In 2020 he left the monastery and starts ‘to live back in the world’, but now as a monk.
His real dream of becoming a musician was never far away. After years of living in silence in the monastery, he began writing songs. Together with his old friend and producer Wim Claes (songwriter of for example Kim Kay – Li La Li) he wrote a song for the soccer team of his hometown Leuven. This song ‘t Spel van OHL was released on may the 1th of 2015 with his new artist name Frère Sourire, and had immediately a lot of attention in Belgium. Music and Film promoted this song worldwide and it’s still played on the radio in Brazil.
Together with Johan Schots, a well-known producer in Belgium. Frère Sourire has now released a new song Michaël and asked Music and Film to promote it in USA.
Michael is a modern mini opera about the final judgment & the battle between the dragon and archangel Michaël (cf. Revelation 12:7).