Nun who wowed The Voice of Italy becomes waiter in Spain



Cristina Scuccia, who wowed judges successful 2014 contest, explains enactment to permission nunhood connected talkshow

Sister Cristina Scuccia smiles aft triumphing the Italian mentation of The Voice successful Milan successful 2014. She is present moving successful Spain arsenic waiter. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPASister Cristina Scuccia smiles aft triumphing the Italian exemplary of The Voice successful Milan successful 2014. She is present operating successful Spain arsenic waiter. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPAAngela Giuffrida successful RomeMon 21 Nov 2022 08.18 ESTLast modified connected Mon 21 Nov 2022 08.54 EST

A nun who person go a singing sensation aft triumphing Italy’s mentation of The Voice has greatly amazed TV viewers again aft saying that she has kicked the dependancy and is present a waiter successful Spain.

Sister Cristina Scuccia, from Sicily, greatly amazed judges, inclusive of the overdue Raffaella Carrà, for the duration of her unsighted audition for the amusement successful 2014, giving a rapturous show of the Alicia Keys’ deed euphony No One. After realising the highly bully dependable belonged to a nun, Carrà, who died closing yr, said: “I couldn’t talk for respective minutes.”

Scuccia, who connected the clip turned into a fig of the nuns connected the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family convent successful Milan, went straight to triumph the show that summertime on with her show of What a Feeling, the taxable substance way from the movie Flashdance. She aboriginal produced an album, which she gave to Pope Francis, that blanketed a cowl exemplary of Madonna’s Like a Virgin.

Singing nun stuns judges connected Italy's The Voice Guardian

Her endowment adjacent attracted reward from a fewer Italian cardinals, but 8 years connected Scuccia, 34, introduced connected an Italian talkshow connected Sunday nighttime clip that she has deserted the nunhood.

Dressed successful precocious heels and a crimson trouser match, with a pierced nostril and agelong darkish hairsbreadth flowing freely, she informed the Verissimo programme: “I judge arsenic existent with that you request to wage attraction successful your bosom with braveness. Change is an denotation of evolution, but it is ever scary due to the fact that it is little analyzable to anchor oneself to astatine slightest one’s certainties successful spot of questioning oneself. Is determination a close oregon incorrect?”

Scuccia stated that leaving the nunhood – a prime a scientist helped her to method – did not connote she had renounced her faith, and that she go nevertheless chasing her imagination of a vocation successful track.

“I chose to observe my coronary bosom without considering what humans could accidental astir me,” she delivered. “I took a bounce of religion and go disquieted astir finishing up beneath a bridge, I ever repeated this to my psychologist.”

Scuccia said she present lived “with a smile” successful Spain, wherein she works arsenic a waiter.

A enactment of cheerleading nuns had been down the scenes astatine immoderate constituent of Scuccia’s audition for The Voice of Italy, and astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic her information wrong the contention go supported done her ma superior, she confronted harsh ailment from greater accepted factions of the Italian Catholic church, chiefly portion she launched Like a Virgin, which was described via Italy’s Religious Information Service arsenic “a reckless and calculated concern operation”.

“Cristina reached specified excessive stages of estimation – she was getting calls from circular the arena – and additionally a fewer complaint, which astir apt near her successful a federation of confusion,” said a religion supply.

“Leaving turned into her ain choice, aft performing connected TV a batch you possibly suffer the compass a touch. She was younger and nether plentifulness of stress.”