| Photos used are for "Entertainment Purposes Only". Please excuse the typo error title in the video. The song is in French. The following link is the English conversion. www.allthelyrics.com Jeanine Deckers (October 17 1933) - (March 29 1985), better known in English as The Singing Nun, was a Belgian nun, and a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium. She became internationally famous in 1963 as Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile) when she scored a hit with the song "Dominique". In the English language world, she is mostly referred to as "The Singing Nun". Born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers, she was a nun in the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Waterloo, Belgium. While in the convent, she wrote, sang and performed her own songs, which were so well received by the order and at retreats that the monastery decided to let her record an album, which visitors and retreatists to the monastery would be able to purchase. In 1963, the album was recorded in Brussels at Philips. The single "Dominique" became an international hit. Many radio stations in the US played it and other softer hits more often in the wake of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Overnight, the Dominican nun was an international celebrity with the stage name of Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile). She gave concerts and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on 5 January 1964. As of November 2009[update], "Dominique" is the only Belgian song that has ever been a number one hit single in the United ... |
