Image: Franciscan friar, Alessandro BrustenghiPosted on 02/14/2013 3:48:40 PM PST by NYer
Image: Franciscan friar, Alessandro Brustenghi
Fra Alessandro Brustenghi is Franciscan friar from Assisi in Italy, the birthplace of St Francis. He's the very first friar ever to land a major record deal. Fra Alessandro is not a conservatorium-trained singer and only pursued singing seriously after entering the Order of Friars Minor at the age of 19. Following a series of auditions, aged 34 he now has a debut album of spiritual songs and hymns called Voice From Assisi, produced by Mike Hedges, best-known for his work with U2 and The Cure. From the Porziuncola, the small church where St Francis founded his Order in the early 13th century, Fra Alessandro talks about reconciling his religious and musical life.
This is a very special gift. EWTN is running a special on him. He is quite modest and all proceeds from the sale of his album will be used to support the order. Please pray that Fr. Alessandro will be able to maintain this sense of modesty as his recognition grows. Check out the two cuts posted above.
He is goodddd
Alright
You hear of American Idol RIGHT he is Cathoic idol LOL!
He is goodddd
Alright
You hear of American Idol RIGHT he is Cathoic idol LOL!
He does have a great voice, and that is a good idea you have there to pray for him that he doesn't develop "big-head-syndrome".
(I'll have to keep an eye out for that EWTN special.)
After I read your thread here, I looked him up on amazon, and the page there for his CD has a little bit more information about him, for anyone interested. (Link below)
It is going to be tough for him to remain humble when he has a camera filming him in that romantic way, fans adoring him, and a fawning voiceover for the ads. His instrument is fabulous, amazing. I’d rather listen to this than Bocelli, to be honest.
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