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Singing Nun, Suor Cristina Scuccia Wins ‘The Voice’ in Italy
VARIETY ^ | 06/06/2014 | Nick Vivarelli

Posted on 06/06/2014 12:03:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

ROME – Italy’s singing nun, Sister Cristina Scuccia, is the winner of “The Voice of Italy,” after becoming a global sensation starting in March when her rendition of Alicia Keys’ “No One” in the talent show’s blind audition got more than 50 million hits on YouTube and appreciative Tweets from Keys herself and Whoopi Goldberg.

On Thursday night, wearing her nun’s habit, crucifix around her neck, and plain black shoes, the 25-year-old Sicilian nun won Italy’s version of “The Voice” with 62.3 percent of the vote.

“My presence here is not up to me, it’s thanks to the man upstairs,” she said before reciting the Lord’s Prayer onstage.

Sister Scuccia, who won a recording contract with Universal, was coached by Italian rapper J-Ax. She beat long-haired male rocker Giacomo Voli.

As the singing nun’s popularity soared in Italy and around the world, her performances on stage on Italy’s “The Voice,” aired by pubcster RAI, have included a cover of Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer” (see video), Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” and “What a Feeling.” From the studio audience her fellow sisters cheered her on, often breaking out into dance moves themselves.

Scuccia, a member of the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family reportedly took her vows in 2010 after a rebellious adolescence. She has been training as a singer for years and previously auditioned for several other TV talent shows, including X-Factor in Italy.

She has said she was inspired to audition for “The Voice” by the words of Pope Francis to “get out onto the streets” in his call for a Catholic Church that is closer to common folk and their everyday lives.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Religion; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: nun; thevoice
Click This link to watch Sister Cristina sing Mariah Carey's HERO.

1 posted on 06/06/2014 12:03:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
SISTER CRISTINA WINS

2 posted on 06/06/2014 12:04:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Thy will be done…even on The Voice!
3 posted on 06/06/2014 12:12:40 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: SeekAndFind

Again, I feel vindicated...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3135753/posts#22


4 posted on 06/06/2014 12:15:02 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

ping


5 posted on 06/06/2014 12:15:24 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

I’m her biggest fan!


6 posted on 06/06/2014 12:49:56 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected. - Walker Percy)
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To: SeekAndFind

The ORIGINAL Singing Nun:

Jeanine Deckers of Belgium, better known as Sœur Sourire or The Singing Nun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique


7 posted on 06/06/2014 12:55:20 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is all this appropriate for a nun? I mean doesn’t it go against her vows of poverty, modesty or something? Just wondering. I’m not Catholic.


8 posted on 06/06/2014 1:09:17 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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It’s a risk. I had a music professor who was a priest, when I was in college. He got a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music and off he went to study piano performance. He’s not a priest any more. He wanted this world, not the next.

And what about Amy Grant, who started out singing Christian pop and then tried to go regular pop and got divorced and remarried and has never recaptured the pure inspiration she had before fame went to her head. (My perception— I”m not an Amy Grant expert).

All I can say is, the Sister’s motives seem wholesome enough, so she needs some prayer to keep her grounded. I think she really did affect some people, though. Somehow, just seeing a young nun in habit reminds people that there is sincere good in the world, without a worldly, cynical undertone. It gives people hope.


9 posted on 06/06/2014 1:26:58 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


10 posted on 06/06/2014 1:32:02 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: married21

Thanks for your reply.


11 posted on 06/06/2014 1:37:01 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: patriot08
I mean doesn’t it go against her vows...

Heck no! I have been dating a tattooed biker nun I met in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

12 posted on 06/06/2014 3:09:46 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( A disbarred gay Muslim lawyer from Kenya as POTUS? Sure! What could go wrong?)
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To: patriot08; SeekAndFind

Sr. Cristina is appropriately representing her religious order, the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family, with the full support of her Mother Superior, Mother Agatha. The Ursulines run a performing arts school in Rome, called the Star Rosa Academy, where Sr. Cristian studied voice. Performing arts -— as a vehicle for evangerlization-—is part of the Ursuline mission.


13 posted on 06/06/2014 6:17:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected. - Walker Percy)
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To: Kenny Bunk

I’ve been meaning to ask, when do you plan on getting Mom home???


14 posted on 06/06/2014 6:25:12 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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Ok. Thanks, Mrs Don-o.

I’m not Catholic, and about all I know about nuns is what I see in the movies. LOL

But it seems that all the nuns had to take a vow of poverty, modesty, shun pride, etc.- and this just didn’t seem appropriate to me for a nun to be singing and jiving around with the unsavory bunch she was appearing with.

No offense.

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15 posted on 06/06/2014 8:12:07 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: Delta Dawn

DD, the Sabbath doth approach and I must begin repentance. Pingeth me not with scurrilous repartée until Monday.


16 posted on 06/06/2014 11:28:19 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( A disbarred gay Muslim lawyer from Kenya as POTUS? Sure! What could go wrong?)
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To: patriot08

These “unsavory people” are the sisters’ mission territory. I suppose they should stay with the devout!


17 posted on 06/07/2014 4:34:59 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!" - Luke 7:34)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

They appeared to me to be typical ‘rappers’ or ‘hip hoppers’ carvorting around the nun as she sang..just didn’t seem approprr to me.


18 posted on 06/07/2014 6:14:22 AM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: patriot08

The word “cavorting” has a connotation of morally tainted (possibly sexual) pursuits, There was no “dirty” dancing, lewd behavior, or even immodest dress associated with Sr. Cristina’s performances. If there were, I myself would have objected.


19 posted on 06/07/2014 2:02:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good; call darkness light, and light, darkness.)
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