miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2014

Sister Cristina Scuccia and history’s rebel nuns

(Marco Bertorello / AFP / Getty Images)
(Marco Bertorello / AFP / Getty Images)
Sister Cristina Scuccia has just released an album that includes her cover of Madonna’s hit song. But she isn’t the first nun to raise eyebrows.
“Sisters for life!” Madonna tweeted in October. She wasn’t referring to Lady Gaga or Rihanna: her affection was directed at Sicilian nun Sister Cristina Scuccia, who has recorded a cover of the US pop star’s 1984 hit Like a Virgin.
The singing nun – who invited the audience to join her in reciting the Lord’s Prayer after winning The Voice of Italy talent show in June – today releases her debut album. She claims her cover of the racy classic is more of “a secular prayer than a pop song”, telling Catholic newspaper Avvenire: “If you read the lyrics without being influenced by what has gone before, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again, to release them from their past. And that’s how I wanted to interpret it. That’s why we’ve transformed it from the pop-dance track it was into a romantic ballad.”
The 26-year-old argues: “I chose it myself, without any desire to provoke or scandalise.” Yet Italy’s Religious Information Service news agencycalled it a “reckless and sly commercial operation”. Holy Sisters are not always cut from the same cloth: BBC Culture picks out some of Sister Cristina’s ground-breaking predecessors, including an erotic poet and a 1960s activist.

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