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	The Singing Nun
		The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (1933-1985), who joined the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium.
		Popular in the convent for her music, she was encouraged by the other nuns to record an album in 1963, and one song, "Dominique," soared to the top of the charts in the United States.
		As the 1960s progressed, the Singing Nun stopped performing and entered a rigorous religious life in the convent in 1965.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Singing_Nun.html (260 words)

	The Singing Nun (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Soeur Sourire The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (1933-1985), who joined the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium.
		In 1965, a movie called The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds, was made about her, though she rejected the film as "fictional." As the 1960s progressed, the Singing Nun stopped performing and entered a rigorous religious life in the convent in 1965.
		But she said nothing and the sofa was left at the foot of the Sary to follow her to the kitchen.
	the-singing-nun.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (458 words)

	The Singing Nun - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		While Elvis was singing about Girls, Girls, Girls and young people took as their slogan "Make Love, Not War," the most surprising star burst onto the pop scene.
		The Singing Nun, an unassuming member of a Belgian religious order who was also known as Soeur Sourire, hit the top of the music charts with a song about St. Dominic, who established the Dominicans.
		The Singing Nun and Pescher took their lives in 1985 with a combination of pills and alcohol when the government ordered her to pay back taxes amounting to more than 60,000 dollars which accrued from her time as a singer and recording artist.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,493669,00.html (624 words)

	The Singing Nun
		Perhaps the unlikeliest pop star ever, Soeur Sourire ("Sister Smile"), AKA the Singing Nun, had a chart-topping hit with "Dominique" in '63, then she gradually distanced herself from the convent and came to a bizarre, tragic end.
		In '65 the Singing Nun abruptly quit performing and retired to the convent, there to concentrate on her studies.
		The nun's habit of the early '60s concealed most of her head, hid all her hair, and revealed a large, smiling face adorned with conservative eyeglasses.
	home.earthlink.net /~nuttbait/singing_nun.htm (1643 words)

	Nun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Roman Catholicism a nun is an enclosed female monastic regular, equivalent to that of a male monk.
		The type of vows that are taken are dependent on the Constitutions and/or rule of each community, which are submitted for approval to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life, a body of the Roman Curia.
		The clothes of the nuns in Tibet are basically the same with those of monks, but there are differences between novice and gelong robes, and there is of course a lot of variation between different Buddhist cultures in Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nun (1727 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did the "singing nun" commit suicide with her lesbian lover? (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A friend and I were discussing the fate of the "singing nun," popular for a time in the 60s when we were kids.
		It's true that the "singing nun," also known as Janine (spellings vary) Deckers, committed suicide in Belgium in 1985 along with her companion of ten years, Annie Pecher.
		Deckers, who had become a Dominican nun in 1959, recorded "Dominique" as a tribute to the founder of her order.
	www.straightdope.com.cob-web.org:8888 /classics/a4_078.html (355 words)

	The Singing Nun by Sudeshna Sarkar
		Ani Choying Dolma ('ani' means nun in Tibetan) - the 'singing nun' from Nepal - founded the Nuns' Welfare Foundation, a non-profit organisation to promote the education and welfare of Buddhist nuns, in Kathmandu with the money from her singing career.
		Nuns, as well as laywomen, are suffering from this discrimination.
		Dolma says that besides secular education, it is also important for nuns to acquire livelihood skills so that they can be finally in control of their lives.
	www.boloji.com /wfs4/wfs441.htm (1164 words)

	Amazon.com: The Singing Nun: Music: Soeur Sourire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I first heard "The Singing Nun" when I was fifteen years old and I heard her song, "Dominique" on the radio.
		The answer, of course, is the Singing Nun, "Soeur Sourire" ("Sister Smile"), who was born Jeanine Deckers in Belgium in 1933 and took the name Sister Luc-Gabrielle when she became a Dominican nun at the Fichermont Convent in Belgium.
		The singing nun was just trying to raise some money for her Dominican order and had paid a recording studio to record an album she could give out as a gift.
	www.amazon.com /Singing-Nun-Soeur-Sourire/dp/B00000I9FP (1508 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - The Singing Nun
		We certainly were throughout this weirdly strange re-enactment of the life of Soeur Sourire – the famous Belgium singing nun.
		Talbot – or Johnny Haunt – schizophrenically jumps from man to nun to man again as he gets inside the head (and wimple) of the Singing Nun to look at her life and suicide.
		In the Singing Nun you quickly lose all sense of what is real and what is not and you can't take anything for granted.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=1792112005 (265 words)

	2blowhards.com: The Singing Nun
		Urged on by fellow nuns, she recorded "Dominique." She left the convent and shacked up with a girlfriend -- there's apparently some controversy about whether the two women were sexually involved.
		Her record contract was canceled after the Singing Nun novelty-thing wore off.
		I was in Catholic high school when the Singing Nun was at the height of her popularity, and we sang "Dominique" in French class.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/2006/07/the_singing_nun_1.html (650 words)

	The Singing Nun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1966, a movie called The Singing Nun was made about her, starring Debbie Reynolds in the title role — Deckers rejected the film as "fictional".
		She and Pécher both died by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol, and were buried together.
		[2] In 2006, a revival of "The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun" was staged during the New York Musical Theater Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Singing_Nun (600 words)

	Famous Belgians - Jeanne Deckers (The Singing Sun)
		She is the only Belgian ever to achieve a number one hit in America and temporarily topped such heavy hitters as Stevie Wonder and The Beatles in the charts.
		She was popular in the convent for her music and was encouraged by the other nuns to record an album in 1963.
		Her life is described in detail in the French book "Soeur Sourire: A Faceless Voice, Passions and the Death of the Fichermont Singing Nun" written by Henry Everaert and based on The Singing Nun's own journals.
	www.famousbelgians.net /deckers.htm (432 words)

	CTVN: I guess you could call me the singing nun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I was so impressed by the love and goodness that I saw in the nuns who taught me, I wanted to emulate them to the fullest.
		But then, the day before the signed permission was due to the convent, she reluctantly penned her name and told me, "You'll probably be back in 6 months anyway You've always failed everything you've tried to accomplish".
		But for the most part, my training to be a nun at the Mother House was very difficult for me. I felt as if I was going to have a breakdown.
	www.ctvn.org /testimonies/mskeba.html (1346 words)

	Soeur Sourire - The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives
		Soeur Sourire (translated that would be "Sister Smile", but she became known in the English speaking world as The Singing Nun) is the only Belgian Artist who has succeeded getting to number 1 record on the American Billboard charts (Jacques Brel also managed to get there, but not in his own voice).
		The recording career of Sister Luc-Gabrielle started when the fellow nuns from her convent at Fichermont wanted her to record a few of her songs to be given away as gifts.
		- The Singing Nun was one of the Swinging Chicks of the Sixties
	houbi.com /belpop/groups/soeursourire.htm (412 words)

	Biography of The Singing Nun to be Released in March 2005 - Music from the Soul: The Singing Nun Story
		Deckers was known to the world as Soeur Sourire or The Singing Nun whose hit "Dominique" topped the music charts in 1963.
		It was the wish of Jeannine Deckers that her unpublished journals be used to tell the true story of her life.
		The movie made by MGM in 1966, "The Singing Nun", was fictionalized and bore little resemble to the real life of Deckers and Fichermont convent.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/2/prweb198039.htm (399 words)

	TheLifeanddeathofthesingingnun
		Jeanne Deckers AKA The Singing Nun or Soeur Sourire in Normandy, France
		The world only knew the smiling nun who captured the attention of Ed Sullivan, the woman in the white habit who sweetly strummed her guitar, Sister Adele.
		His broadcast from Fichermont convent in 1964 was the first of its kind and introduced the public to the elusive world of cloistered nuns.
	deckers66.homestead.com /TheLifeanddeathofthesingingnun.html (268 words)

	Singing Nun VHS
		The supporting cast brings in some camp appeal: Agnes Moorehead as a cranky nun, Chad Everett, and "Ed Sullivan as Himself." The best sequence has Sullivan's CBS crew showing up in Belgium to tape the Singing Nun for his TV shew--er, show--and sending the irresistibly catchy "Dominique" on its way to international success.
		Based on a true story, The Singing Nun tells of a nun, Debbie Reynolds, who walks a fine line between joyous praise through music and vain self-glorification as her popular songs become commercially successful.
		We did not notice the make-up on the nuns, and we did not think that the nuns in it were over the top.
	www.tvcrazy.net /6302478952/Singing_Nun.html (500 words)

	The Singing Nun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This extraordinary new solo performance is inspired by the true story of Jeanine Deckers, The Singing Nun, who was famous (briefly) for a kitsch little song called Dominique (1963).
		Johnny Haunt is her biggest fan and this colourful biography is his tribute, a funny and surprising celebration of love ambition and failure.
		The Singing Nun combines innovative staging with stand-up, stupidity, physical theatre and character comedy.
	www.theatreroyal.org.uk /usti/singingnun.html (87 words)

	THE TRAGIC AND HORRIBLE LIFE OF THE SINGING NUN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Singing Nun faded from sight following the success of "Dominique" in the '60s.
		Author/Director Blair Fell has loosely based The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun on her story, which ended in suicide with her female lover in 1985.
		She whisks the audience to a series of flashbacks in Belgium, reminding them that "plays are long and life is short." The heroine, here called Jeanine Fou, was portrayed as an unattractive, myopic young woman with unplumbed passions by Suzanne Schuckel, who gave a sincere and heart-wrenching performance completely without vanity.
	www.oobr.com /top/volTwo/seventeen/OOBR-Nun.html (573 words)

	Movie Info for The Singing Nun on MSN Movies
		Henry Koster directed this cloying family musical based on the true life story of Soeur Sourire, a Belgian nun whose recordings made her an overnight sensation on The Ed Sullivan Show.
		Debbie Reynolds stars as Sister Ann, a Belgian nun who likes to compose little tunes on her guitar.
		She writes the song "Dominique" for a lonely little boy, Dominic Arlien (Ricky Cordell), whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic.
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=184132 (186 words)

	Dominique - The Singing Nun - CDs, clips
		An English version was recorded by Debbie Reynolds in 1966 for the movie, "The Singing Nun," in which she played the title role.
		Amazon.com has audio clips of "Dominique" by The Singing Nun on the CD albums listed below.
		To listen to a clip, click on any album name and you will be taken to a CD product web page with a list of album tracks linked to song clips.
	www.allbutforgottenoldies.net /listen-to/clips.php?song_id=56239 (135 words)

	The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun tickets - The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun information - ...
		The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun, based on the play written by Blair Fell, is an homage to the story of Jeanine Deckers, the Belgian nun who became a chart-topping pop star under the name of Soeur Sourire with the song "Dominique" in 1963.
		After the one hit wonder, her singing career -- and life -- devolved into a nightmare of addiction, depression, betrayal by the Church, and a tragic end in 1985.
		The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun features music and lyrics by Andy Monroe with book and additional lyrics by Blair Fell.
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/121245 (285 words)

	YouTube - soeur sourire The Singing Nun Dominique (disco version 1982)
		Being a nun in the convent you take a vow of poverty, so the money made went to the church and left her in a debt she was unable to pay.
		This is the last videoclip of Belgian Je This is the last videoclip of Belgian Jeannine Deckers, The Singing Nun or Soeur Sourire.
		Soeur Sourire Singing nun 'Les pieds de missionaires'
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=9uJLAhZU95E (393 words)

	Justgiving - THE SINGING NUN!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hi, I'm John Shah and I ran this year's London Marathon dressed up a nun and carrying my guitar, to raise money for UK Youth and local youth work charity, bayc.
		I managed to drag myself from start to finish, in the princely time of 5 hrs, 13 mins and 15 seconds.
		I have to say a HUGE thank you to all of you who came down and supported me on the day, or kept an eye out for me on the TV - I know loads of you made an effort and that's all I can ask for.
	www.justgiving.com /saveyoursongs (453 words)

	The singing nun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Yet Ani Choying hardly needs to sing for pennies on the streets of
		She became a nun at the age of 13 in order to
		So for a Tibetan Buddhist nun," she laughs, "maybe the funf=
	www.tibet.ca /en/wtnarchive/1999/7/24_3.html (713 words)

	The Singing Nun News
		The Singing Nun News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Debbie Reynolds will make a rare New York City concert appearance at 3pm on Sunday, June 4 at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx.
		Though I'm very familiar with the song made famous by the nun known as Soeur Sourire, the now pop culture reference "Dominique", I'm not old enough to remember the pop phenomenon it became in 1963.
	www.topix.net /movies/the-singing-nun (144 words)

	Soeur Sourire The Belgian Singing Nun 20th Anniverary of her Death (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Soeur Sourire The Belgian Singing Nun 20th Anniverary of her Death (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)
		Soeur Sourire wrote a song that was a number one hit in 1963 and people still sing it forty years later.
		I believe that she is no longer the nobody she thought herself to be.
	deckers66.homestead.com.cob-web.org:8888 (502 words)

	The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun
		The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun
		nun who sang the Grammy-winning 60’s hit “Dominique-
		about what happened to a quirky little nun with a big dream.
	www.singingnunthemusical.com /home.html (78 words)

	Playbill News: Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun — the Musical — Gets NYC Reading May 15
		The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun, a new musical, will be heard May 15 in the Musicals Tonight!/Musical Mondays Theatre Lab reading series, "New Musicals From the BMI Workshop," in midtown Manhattan.
		According to the creators, "After the one hit wonder, her singing career — and life — devolved into a nightmare of addiction, depression, betrayal by the Church, and a tragic end in 1985."
		His plays The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun and Naked Will received numerous awards.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/99685.html (603 words)

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