17th March 2013: The Singing Nun

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The story of this nun is very sad and it goes something like this:
After earning loads of fame from this track, she then was less popular.
She had given all her proceeds to her convent and they refused to acknowledge it so she had to pay taxes on money she never had.
Then the convent found out she was gay and banished her so she went to live with her girlfriend.
Then she had more financial trouble and some drug trouble and she and her girlfriend killed themselves but not before the singing nun made a disco remake of her hit single.

In French, "nique" means fuck, which maybe explains why this song was so popular.

The life of the singing Belgian nun was first made into a happy broadway show in the 60's and then a depressing French film with one of my favourite actresses, Cécile de France.