Fernand Faniard

[1] He was the son of "cafeteria owner" Lambert Leopold Jules Steems and Maria Joseph Marguerite Fagniard.

He received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Laurent Swofs.

He left that theatre in 1926 for the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and was retrained as a tenor by Tilkin Servais and Eric Audoin.

Other performances took place in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice and Rouen.

In 1951, he sang in Strasbourg in the French premiere of the opera Mathis der Mahler by Paul Hindemith.