Nuns With Music Deal Get Death Threats

ABC News ^ | July 29, 2010

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Nuns With Music Deal Get Death Threats

Reuters

PARIS

Benedictine nuns from a secluded convent in southern France have received death threats after winning a deal aimed at creating a chart-topping album, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The nuns from the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation near Avignon had their prayers answered last week after beating 70 other religious orders from North America and Africa to the deal with Universal Music.

The sisters, whose album is set to be released in November, put a clip of their Gregorian chants online, but realized on Tuesday a raft of death threats had been put at the bottom of the clip, La Provence reported on its website.

[La Lydia]

Yeah, I wonder “who” in France, would object to Nuns making music and recording an album.

[Dem Guard]

From whom for what? Did they actually sing that bad? lol

[Little Bill]

I love Plain Chant.

[Frantzie]

Same people who are running the USA now and the same people idiots in the USA elected.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[norraad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0EFlqOPTTc

[trisham]

How bizarre.

[kbennkc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpCgi5tkYxw

[bigbob]

Nuttin' wrong with that. "Domininque" by the Singing Nun aka Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile, born Jeanine Deckers), of Belgium hit the top 10 in 1963 and outsold Elvis while she was on the charts.

[trisham]

“Dominique -nique -nique s’en allait tout simplement,
Routier, pauvre et chantant.
En tous chemins, en tous lieux,’
Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu,
Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu”

[BnBlFlag]

“Yeah, I wonder “who” in France, would object to Nuns making music and recording an album.”

Are these Nuns members of the “Musician’s Union”?

[Fiji Hill]

“Dominique” by Soeur Sourire actually spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in December, 1963. A few weeks later, another group, also from another country but with a radically different sound, shot to the top of the chart and would stay there for three months.

[agere_contra]

She and her companion committed suicide in 1985.

[Jack Wilson]

Outsold Elvis.....I think that was because he didn’t have anything out at the time.....

[ArrogantBustard]

From wikipedia (hah hah):

"In 1967, she recorded a song entitled "Glory Be to God for the Golden Pill" — a paean to contraception — under the name Luc Dominique. It was a commercial failure."

Blasphemy is a bad idea ....

[ArrogantBustard]

She and her FEMALE "companion" ...

Sexual perversion is a bad idea, too.

Governments hounding people for improperly assessed "back taxes" is also a bad idea ...

[ArrogantBustard]

Yeah, I wonder “who” in France, would object to Nuns making music and recording an album.

Who says that the threats are from someone in France? Article says the threats were in English.

Plenty of folks in England ... even in USA ... who might be suspected of making such threats.

[patriot08]

That’s sick. Leave the nuns alone.

[mlizzy]

Wonder if it has anything to do with signing with Lady Gaga.

Singer Lady Gaga has signed a group of signing nuns from the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation monastery near Avignon, France, to her record label. CBSNews.com's Shira Lazar reports. Link.