Bad Bunny, BlackPink, BTS, Psy, Falco, and even Nena have proven one doesn’t need to sing in English to have a massive global hit.
In 1963, right before the British Invasion, a 30-year-old Belgian singer named Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers took the world by storm with “Dominique,” the first single from her debut album.
Deckers took the name Sister Luc-Gabrielle in 1959 when she joined the Missionary Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Fichermont not far from where Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo and inspired the 1974 ABBA hit.
The affable Deckers loved to sing and play guitar for the sisters and soon it was decided that she had to cut an album, in part so that visitors and locals could buy the record and help support the convent.
Deckers recorded under the stage name Sœur Sourire aka “Sister Smile” but she was better known as The Singing Nun which is what her record label, Philips, emblazoned on the album cover.
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