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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Singing Nun at Epinions.com
		Based on the real life story of Jeanine Deckers, born in 1933 in Belguim, Soeur Sourire as her professional stage name and Sister Luc-Gabrielle as her Dominican name.
		She was particularly offended by the scene showing Debbie Reynolds (as Deckers) tooling down the highway on a motor scooter, guitar strapped to her back, habit flying in the breeze.
		The real Deckers considered her music a gift from God and relented to recordings to be used as gifts to parishioners and the order only.
	www.epinions.com /content_78950403716 (746 words)

	The Singing Nun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers; October 17, 1933 – March 29, 1985), a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium.
		Although she was deeply religious, she was also increasingly critical of the Roman Catholic Church's conservatism and eventually became an advocate of birth control.
		Her musical career over, Deckers opened a school for autistic children in Belgium with her companion of ten years, Annie Pécher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeanine_Deckers (597 words)

	[RAINDANCE] WRITE >> PRODUCE >> DIRECT >> FILM
		Roger Deutsch's take on Jeanine Deckers' (her real name) decline is of a fairy story that goes wrong at every point from the moment she leaves the convent.
		Beautifully shot in luscious Super16 Jeanine emerges as a tortured soul, whose love for her father and dead mother is twisted and confused, and whose relationship with everyone she touches, especially her lover Clara, is chaotic and destructive.
		Jeanine is a wild child who is tragically trying to tame herself; the inevitability of her decline and her ultimate fall, just when she's trying to do the right thing for once, is moody, moving and hallucinogenic.
	www.raindancefilmfestival.org /archive/suorsorriso.html (339 words)

	Choice of Music ::
		Jeanine Deckers continued to composed and sing many other songs apart from 'Dominique'.
		Although Madame Deckers was trying to fight back and proceeded going to court, she lost these cases in the end.
		It was the last straw: on March 29th 1985, with mounting debts on her back and desperation in her mind, Jeanine Deckers committed suicide by swallowing an overdose of sleeping pills.
	www.choice-of-music.com /detail/soeur_sourire.php (565 words)

	lespress zeitreise "Jeanine Deckers"
		Hier, in Saint Henri nahe Brüssel, beendete Jeanine auch ihre Schule, kehrte jedoch 1953 zum Studium nach Paris zurück.
		Den erlernten Beruf übte sie an einer Mädchenschule in ihrer Heimatstadt Brüssel aus, bis sie schließlich 1959 einer anderen, offenbar tiefer empfundenen Berufung folgte: Jeanine Deckers trat in den Dominikanerinnen-Orden ein und wurde zu Schwester "Luc-Gabrielle" (nach den Vornamen ihrer Eltern).
		Zuletzt konnten Annie und Jeanine nicht einmal mehr das von ihnen einige Jahre zuvor gegründete Heim für autistische Kinder halten.
	www.lespress.de /062003/texte062003/zeitreise072003.html (1148 words)

	Soeur Sourire
		Jeanine and her convent close the doors on the stardom of
		Jeanine leaves the convent and moves in with Annie Percher,
		Jeanine begins to paint again, and also teaches guitar.
	www.singingnunthemusical.com /History.html (278 words)

	The Singing Nun
		Born Jeanine Deckers, in the '50s she took the name Sister Luc-Gabrielle and became a Dominican nun at the Fichermont Convent in Belgium.
		Gabrielle and Lucien Deckers, her parents, were married in 1932.
		Jeanine Deckers started out as an artist and attended art school as a young girl.
	home.earthlink.net /~nuttbait/singing_nun.htm (1643 words)

	NYMF on Broadway.com » Random
		The story of Jeanine Deckers, the Belgian nun who had the hit song “Dominique” in 1963, offers juicy material for a campy musical.
		Fellow nun Jeanine sings sweetly to her guitar, which she names Adele, and looks for musical inspiration from the saints.
		Jeanine, The Singing Nun, is a kooky yet passionate heroine who becomes a pop sensation and gets caught up in the world of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll.
	www.broadway.dreamhosters.com /nymf/category/random (1895 words)

	Dominique by The Singing Nun Songfacts
		The singing Nun was Sister Luc-Gabrielle (born Jeanine Deckers), from a Fichermont, Belgium convent.
		After the release of the movie, Sister Luc-Gabrielle left the convent and tried to maintain her recording career, this time under her real name - Jeanine Decker.She became a bit of a rebel, with singles like "Glory Be to God for the Golden Pill," a hymn to birth control.
		In 1985, Jeanine Decker and her partner of 10 years, Annie Pecher, committed suicide.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2053 (554 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/The Singing Nun
		The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers; October 17 1933 – March 29 1985), a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium.
		The play, which was written & directed by Blair Fell, was loosely based on the events in Jeanine Deckers life.
		The production, which featured several musical numbers, followed the renamed character Jeanine Fou's life from her entry into the convent until her death with Annie.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jeanine_Deckers (608 words)

	The Singing Nun [Philips]: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		As might be anticipated, the material on The Singing Nun is sacred in content.
		However, when interviewed decades later -- after returning to a secular life as well as to her birth name, Jeanine Deckers -- it was revealed that her best-known composition was written as a decidedly snide ode to St. Dominic, creator and spiritual figurehead of her one-time monastic order.
		The Singing Nun was issued on CD in 1998 by Collectors' Choice Music, and the expanded 14-page liner notes booklet incorporates much of the original packaging, including the nine-panel storybook and illustrations and the translated lyric sheet.
	www.music.com /release/the_singing_nun/2 (567 words)

	Dangerous & Free » Blog Archive » The Story behind the Song
		The Evil Mother Superior was not amused at the sister (whose real name is Jeanine Deckers) or her success.
		Three years later, young Jeanine quit the convent, took up with her lesbian lover, and started to promote the use of birth control pills.
		Later, together with her lover in Belgium, Jeanine founded a school for autistic children.
	geraldbrennan.com /Blog/?p=5 (737 words)

	miaminewtimes.com - News - Emigrant Song
		Her ultraperky French-language "Dominique" followed Sakamoto's song up the charts, topping out at number one for four weeks in late '63.
		Deckers, a Belgian nun whose life was immortalized in the 1966 biopic The Singing Nun (Debbie "Tammy" Reynolds in the title role!), had checked out of her Dominican order almost twenty years earlier when she checked out of this world via a suicidal OD of sedatives in March 1985 at age 52.
		Sakamoto, who'd continued to enjoy pop-star status in Japan, perished almost five months later, one of 520 people who died when a Japan Airlines flight crashed near Tokyo.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/1994-08-16/music2_full.html (703 words)

	KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Before most of the Lollapalooza kids were hatched, it was totally cool to sing about spirituality and God and Jesus and Krishna and any other holy thing.
		In 1963, the Belgium "singing nun" Jeanine Deckers, dubbed "Soeur Sourire" (Sister Smile), had a number one hit with "Dominique," a catchy little ditty about a Catholic saint.
		But God wasn't just for the folksy Belgiumy types--the Beatles' Paul McCartney gets decidedly spiritual in his anthem, "Let It Be" (1970).
	www.kuci.org /show_feature.cgi?id=325 (449 words)

	The Dawn Patrol
		My hit was so big that it kept the Kingsmen's "Louie, Louie" out of the top spot.
		Who am I? Two or three teams got the right answer, The Singing Nun, but one team actually wrote down all four of her monikers: Jeanine Deckers [her real name], Soeur Sourire [her French nickname], Sister Smile [English translation], and The Singing Nun.
		The expert on that team turned out to be none other than my dear pal Roy Currlin.
	www.dawneden.com /2003/10/shes-gotta-habit.html (253 words)

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		According to Uncle Remus, what kind of day is it "when you can't open your mouth without having a song jump right out of it?"?
		Soeur Sourire was the recording name used by the former Jeanine Deckers on what one-hit wonder song that was a tribute to a religious order?
		Hint: The song stayed at #1 on the pop charts for 4 weeks in 1963.
	www.primate.wisc.edu /people/hamel/qotd/archive.0598.html (587 words)

	St Dominic Catharism Troubadours Romance Albigensians
		The song 'Dominique', written and sung by Jeanine Deckers, or 'Soeur Sourire', as she was popularly known, is an homage to St Dominic (1170-1221), the founder of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order.
		- I didn't even know what the song was about) as much as the sound of Jeanine Deckers' trembling and clear voice and her wonderful and high spirit, which represented, at least to me, all that could be sweet and innocent and true and beautiful in the world.
		Thanks to Robert Johnson, Hilaire Belloc, and John B. O'Conner for background information, quoting and paraphrasing from their excellent essays.)
	members.iinet.net.au /~dwomen/files/lyrics/dominiqueNotes.html (2392 words)

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