Nun who wowed The Voice of Italy becomes waitress in Spain



Cristina Scuccia, who greatly amazed judges successful 2014 contest, explains determination to spell distant 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 a waitress. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPASister Cristina Scuccia smiles aft prevailing the Italian exemplary of The Voice successful Milan successful 2014. She is present moving successful Spain arsenic a waitress. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPAAngela Giuffrida successful RomeMon 21 Nov 2022 08.18 ESTLast modified connected Mon 21 Nov 2022 09.Forty EST

A nun who person go a making a opus sensation aft triumphing Italy’s exemplary of The Voice has shocked TV viewers again aft pronouncing that she has kicked the dependancy and is present a waitress successful Spain.

Sister Cristina Scuccia, from Sicily, stunned judges, specified arsenic the past owed Raffaella Carrà, each done her unsighted audition for the show successful 2014, giving a rapturous wide show of the Alicia Keys’ deed opus No One. After realising the apical notch dependable belonged to a nun, Carrà, who died last year, said: “I couldn’t talk for respective minutes.”

Scuccia, who connected the clip was the assorted nuns astatine the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family convent successful Milan, went connected to triumph the amusement that summertime clip unneurotic with her show of What a Feeling, the taxable substance euphony from the movie Flashdance. She aboriginal produced an album, which she gave to Pope Francis, that protected a cowl exemplary of Madonna’s Like a Virgin.

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Her skills adjacent attracted reward from immoderate Italian cardinals, but 8 years connected Scuccia, 34, announced connected an Italian talkshow connected Sunday nighttime that she has deserted the nunhood.

Dressed successful excessive heels and a crimson trouser match, with a pierced chemoreceptor and lengthy acheronian hairsbreadth flowing freely, she informed the Verissimo programme: “I see which you privation to wage attraction connected your coronary bosom with braveness. Change is simply a s of evolution, nevertheless it is usually frightening due to the fact that it's miles simpler to anchor oneself to one’s certainties arsenic opposed to questioning oneself. Is determination a close oregon incorrect?”

Scuccia said that leaving the nunhood – a enactment a scientist helped her to method – did present not mean she had renounced her faith, and that she changed into nevertheless chasing her imagination of a vocation successful track.

“I chose to travel my coronary bosom without reasoning astir what humans could accidental astir me,” she delivered. “I took a bounce of religion and go disquieted astir ending up underneath a bridge, I usually repeated this to my psychologist.”

Scuccia stated she present lived “with a smile” successful Spain, successful which she works arsenic a waitress.

A radical of cheerleading nuns were down the scenes passim Scuccia’s audition for The Voice of Italy, and adjacent arsenic her information successful the contention became supported by utilizing her ma superior, she faced harsh grievance from greater accepted factions of the Italian Catholic church, specifically erstwhile she launched Like a Virgin, which turned into described by Italy’s Religious Information Service arsenic “a reckless and calculated commercialized operation”.

“Cristina reached specified excessive stages of estimation – she was getting calls from circular the arena – and additionally immoderate criticism, which successful each likelihood near her successful a federation of bewilderment,” stated a religion source.

“Leaving turned into her ain decision, aft acting connected TV truthful overmuch you possibly suffer the compass a bit. She changed into young and underneath a assortment of strain.”