Music
Madonna's "Like A Virgin" was covered by an actual singing nun
by Tyler Munro
October 23, 2014
Originally started in Holland, The Voice has expanded into a worldwide phenomenon. In America, The Voice tricks viewers into thinking Blake Shelton and Adam Levine are suitable singing mentors; in Poland, they once had notorious extreme metal front man Adam “Nergal” Darski on their panel.
And in Italy, they have Christina Scuccia, a 26-year-old Ursuline nun who after winning the competition earlier this year will release her first album early next month. Among its first singles? Her cover of Madonna’s sexually charged “Like A Virgin.”
Weird as that might be, Scuccia, who performs under the name Sister Christina, which is brilliantly close to “Sister Christian,” says her re-interpretation of the pop classic frames it as a song about “the power of love to renew people and rescue them from their past.”
We have transformed this song from the pop-dance piece, which it was, into a romantic ballad … something more similar to a lay prayer than to a pop piece
The video is simple enough, focusing entirely on sweeping aerial shots of Italian architecture spliced between shots of Scaccia singing in, around and on top of beautiful Italian architecture. Shots of her dramatically opening and closing her arms, expressively clutching at her heart and, uh… that’s it, actually. Shots like this:
And this:
And this:
[h/t NBC News]
