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I never questioned God, but my growth could no longer fit within the rules.”
After her father passed away, Scuccia took a year-long sabbatical during which she traveled and spent time in silent prayer before deciding to leave the convent.
Today Scuccia lives in Spain and works as a waitress, but says she wants to continue to pursue music, and that “I live with a smile.”
Asked if she had a romantic interest, Scuccia said, “it’s not a priority right now,” but that “if he were to come, I wouldn’t push him away.
All four chairs turned.
While she was enduring this, Scuccia said her father fell ill, so she left to join her mother at his bedside, where she began to experience a freedom that she had not felt in a long time, being able to make simple decisions for herself, such as eating at a different time than the one established in the convent.
Scuccia said she then experienced a deep crisis and began seeing a therapist, saying, “when you only see the dark you need someone to ask for help.
And this is the way that I wanted to interpret it.”
However, despite her initial zeal to evangelize, Scuccia revealed during a recent episode of Italian talk show Verissimo that after 15 years inside the convent, she has abandoned religious life.
Appearing in full makeup and wearing a slick red suit, she told host Silvia Toffanin that her years in the Ursuline order were “the most beautiful of my life, an intense experience that made me grow a lot.”
She told Toffanin that she initially decided to join the Ursuline sisters after taking part in a musical they were organizing to honor the birth of their founder, Rosa Roccuzzo.
Scuccia said that when she went on stage for the first time in that musical in February 2008, she felt “like something was changing in me,” and that she first felt the call to join the order that May, saying the dates are engrained in her mind “because it is like falling in love, or love at first sight.”
After entering into a time of formal discernment with the community, she entered the novitiate in Brazil, where she said seeing women and men in religious orders singing on stage “is very natural.”
“When you meet God, you feel like singing, dancing, praising,” she said, saying at first, her fame and the praise she drew from musical icons such a Madonna and many others was thrilling and motivating.
However, Scuccia said she eventually began to feel the pressure that came with her fame and her international media exposure, and the sisters sought to shield her from it.
After winning, she thanked God and recited the Lord's Prayer to the show organizers and audience.
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Cristina Scuccia
Cristina Scuccia was born in Vittoria in 1988.
Giorgia Pino eliminated.
Album and video
On 20 October 2014, the music video for Scuccia's version of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" was released on Vevo platform.
In the years from 2009 to 2011, Sister Cristina improved her artistic skills at the "Star Rose Academy" in Rome, created and directed by Maximo De Marco. She established her own website where she frequently published updates on her activities, such as participation in various music festivals, media appearances and interviews, and solo videos.
At one point she drew fire for releasing her own cover of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” saying she chose to do a softer, more prayer-like version of the song herself “with no intention to provoke or scandalize.”
When read “without being influenced by previous interpretations,” the lyrics, she said in an interview with Italian newspaper Avvenire at the time, reveal that “it is a song about the power of love to renew people, to rescue them from their past.
Advanced with Giacomo Voli and Tommaso Pini. Cristina chose to be part of Team J-Ax. Won The Voice title with 62.30% of the vote. Dylan Magon from Team J-Ax eliminated.
Throughout the contest, she wore a simple crucifix around her neck, black shoes and ankle-length black religious habit. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
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