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May 6, 2014 NY Times: A Singing Nun for a Reality TV World

ROME — A true if unlikely tale: Young woman enrolls at a drama school sponsored by nuns, where the artistic director is a former Italian erotic film actress who redirected her career after a religious awakening. The students are selected to perform before the pope at St. Peter’s Square, but during rehearsals the young woman fractures an ankle.
Unable to perform, the young woman, Cristina Scuccia, acts on a persistent spiritual tug and commits to becoming a nun. She travels to Brazil to work with poor children and then returns to Italy to live quietly in a convent in Milan. Except she is still a talented singer, so talented that she wins a Christian singing competition, and then auditions on March 19 for Italy’s version of the television show “The Voice.”
There, dressed in a full habit, with the crowd on its feet and a tattooed rap-star judge fighting back tears, she belts out a hip-shaking rendition of “No One,” by Alicia Keys, that brings down the house and quickly goes viral on the Internet, topping 47 million views on YouTube. Gossip magazines have splashed her on their covers in her habit and featured her in articles.
“It’s a very good piece of content,” said a smiling Marco Tombolini, a producer of the program, who has seen its ratings jump sharply. “It just is.”

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Now, more than 400 media outlets have called seeking interviews with Suor Cristina, as she is known in Italy. She has remained at her convent in Milan, except when she is rehearsing with J-Ax, who said he promised the convent’s mother superior that he would protect his protégée from the evils of show business. He also said that once the show ran its course, he would talk to her about spirituality. …More
Now, more than 400 media outlets have called seeking interviews with Suor Cristina, as she is known in Italy. She has remained at her convent in Milan, except when she is rehearsing with J-Ax, who said he promised the convent’s mother superior that he would protect his protégée from the evils of show business. He also said that once the show ran its course, he would talk to her about spirituality.
“The light in her eyes makes me curious,” he said. (Asked about J-Ax during her interview with ANSA, Sister Cristina shrugged off any suggestion that he was “a devil,” calling him “attentive” and “very sensitive.”)
“The Voice” still has weeks to go, with the promise of higher and higher ratings when Sister Cristina appears. The “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” program roughly quadrupled the ratings the show had registered before she joined it in March, which raises a tantalizing question: Will anyone dare vote her off the show?
After the duet, the decision of which woman would advance, Sister Cristina or the other singer, was left to J-Ax. He chose Sister Cristina. Before his decision, one of the other judges, Raffaella Carrà, praised Sister Cristina and laughingly told her not to worry.
“I’m convinced J-Ax will choose you,” Ms. Carrà said. “Otherwise, he’ll go to hell!”
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✍️ Sister Cristina singing with Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue Joins Singing Nun ON The Voice Italy! 😎
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