Stories comes today that London-based Decca Records has confirmed a singing group of Benedictine Nuns to record on the same label as U2, Lady Gaga and Eminem.
Also a part of Universal Music (of which includes Decca) are The Rolling Stones and Amy Winehouse.
Maybe hoping to realize a profit on a song like was done in 1963 when Dominique — sung in French by the first Singing Nun, Sister Luc Gabriel from Belgium — became a global hit, and was hummed by fans of every age, Decca has found their most recent group near Avignon in the South of France. These nuns, of the Abbaye de Notre Lady de l’Annonciation — an order who lives life thru closed doors — practice Gregorian chant all the way back to the 6th century.
However contemporaries may see their music to be similar to the way of Enignma, a 1990s chart topper. According to The Telegram, more than seventy priories in the USA, Africa and Europe were visited to find these gifts. One thing’s for sure, irrespective of what occurs after their album drops in Nov : As these presented Singing Nuns join U2, Lady Gaga, and Eminem on their label, the tuneful French Sisters will certainly stand out as an act not to be followed regardless of how many albums this spiritual group sells on Decca.