Our choir kicked off its eighth season with a studio recording and video shoot for the anthem of the Various Voices Brussels 2026 festival. It was an intense weekend that also served as a great team-building exercise for the singers who recently joined Sing Out!
Let Your Heart Be Heard is an original song written by Simon Finn, a former member of Sing Out Brussels!, and arranged by Philippe Maniez. The creative process for this piece, which could be described as symphonic pop, began five years ago, at the same time as the search for a slogan, identity and values for the European LGBTQI+ choir festival Various Voices, which our choir is organising from 24 to 28 June 2026.
The song is resolutely optimistic and reminds us that our community is stronger when it is united, especially when our voices come together to proudly celebrate our identities.
Let Your Heart Be Heard was on the programme for our auditions this season. Everyone who auditioned this summer had to learn it, which meant that the 26 singers who joined the choir in September were able to get straight involved in this major project for the new season.
The aim of this recording and filming is threefold:
- to inspire the 4,000 choristers who will be taking part in the festival to learn the song and sing it with us at the big show at the ING Arena on 27 June.
- To encourage anyone in Belgium who would also like to learn the song to form the largest choir ever seen in Belgium during this event, or simply to encourage them to participate in the concert.
- To have a powerful communication tool for promoting the festival in Brussels.
On Saturday 20 September, the choir recorded the song at Jet Studio in Brussels. Unlike previous Sing Out Brussels! recordings, the choir recorded here at the same time as a trio of musicians (Gilles Carlier on piano, Victor Foulon on double bass and Antoine Pierre on drums), in about ten takes. Our sound engineer was Vincent De Bast.
The team from La Horde Productions was present to film the video clip, which continued the next day in the streets of Brussels. Group scenes were filmed at the Bourse and in Brussels Park. Other scenes were filmed in small groups on the Grand-Place, in the Saint-Jacques district and near Manneken Pis.
A little over two weeks after resuming its activities, our choir has therefore kicked off its eighth season with a major project that has already helped to strengthen the bonds between its members. Now we just have to wait a few weeks to hear and see the result.
If you are interested in this project, subscribe to the festival newsletter via the website www.various-voices.be. This will allow us to keep you informed about the progress of this project.