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Lucia, she’s 24 and comes from Sicily
She sings because singing has become a demand of her soul There’s no thirst for personal success
and I think this is a wonderful reason to sing for.
I’d like her to come close to me: she’s Sister Cristina.
Come on, Sister Cristina! Welcome back. Are you excited?
Yes, I am. Well enough.
We started to give a hint about your history.
Please, tell us. You decided to take vows while playing the part of a sister in a musical.
Yes, exactly. That character changed my life.
Every time, through Sister Rosa’s words, I felt provoked,
because Sister Rosa invited more girls to give their lives to Christ,
to leave everything - their families, everything - in order to abandon themselves and consecrate their lives to Christ.
So, as the spotlight went off and I got off the stage,
all these questions, while my dream was to become a singer and be successful,
all these questions came back: "But me, a sister? But how! No, it’s not possible! But how? It’s not possible!
I dream of being a singer, not a sister! I’m not able to do it! I’ve never thought about it!"
But then... And now listen to this wonderful performance of the song "Senza la tua voce" by Sister Cristina.
Clouds are disappearing from the sky of my heart They’re leaving me the memory of a heavy storm
that upsets me inside when I decided to change
The sun is merging with my winter fogs I’m walking in a desert I see all around
You’re my hope I couldn’t live without
Without your voice, without your breath without your light, without your hand
without your arms embracing me, warming me, loving me
Now I’m travelling among new and true emotions, and I discover your gaze in the gaze of pain
you’re suffering I couldn’t manage to live without
Without your voice, without your breath without your light, without your hand
without your arms embracing me, warming me, loving me
And if the day’s going to end, I’ll stop to wait for a new dawn that’ll talk to me
Here is your voice, here is your breath here is your light, here is your hand
here are your arms embracing me, saving me, loving me, loving me
Sister Cristina, I’m shivering! You composed the music and the lyrics, didn’t you?
The music was born while I was praying, because I really like praying by writing.
It helps me to get out of myself and I feel I talk more with Him this way.
Then I wrote these words and I thought: «Why don’t I set it to music?», so this thing was born.
And I can say: «Thank goodness you thought of it!».
Silence shouldn’t be the rule at this moment, but thank God I’m not a jury member.
However, I’m very excited and almost moved, because watching, listening to and living this song
is an emotion that probably cameras can’t broadcast.
Nico, can I start from you? Given that this is the first time you’ve listened to it.
Yeah, this is the first time I’ve listened to it and I must say that the song is truly very beautiful.
It seems it was made by a professional. I guess that Sister Cristina is a beginner.
Can I say something? Actually, I want to thank Paolo Migani who helped me to fix it a little,
but, in fact, lyrics and music are mine.
There was a little help, but the song is very beautiful, she sang really well.
There’s something more: you’re older than the other girls. Do you have a voice teacher?
I had a teacher, I studied... My teacher is He now...
You can feel that she gave something coming from her inside. Nobody can give her that. She can get that only by herself.
I still mention that it’s wrong to give grades: the other girls are younger and more inexperienced,
so their minor value is justified. They’re still young, they have to grow up.
At school, too, high grades weren’t given in the first four- months period but in the second, the same should be for them.
So, what is the grade we are going to give her?
I was delighted to know the emotion felt by a person who had listened to her for the first time.
She felt the emotion, so she got it across. She communicated a great emotion... so 10+ !
But do you always get so excited when you hear something like this?
Yes, we do, but less and less. Because they are less and less the songs that really excite.
Not to mention that music-industry executives are heartless.
Artists think the credit’s all theirs if a record is successful and it’s only music-industry executives’s fault if a record fails.
Anyway, Sister Cristina communicates an unbelievable emotion. She has communicated it today, but she did it even more last night.
You mayn’t believe this, but, when she’s on stage with the band, she has a very special determination.
If one thinks that she heard the calling on a stage then I can believe it that she’s able to go on stage this way.
It’s a song that really seems to have been written by a professional, too, because it has it all.
Also, it’s disadvantaged by the lack of arrangement since we listened to a only piano and voice version
With an arrangement, this would be a song remaining in everybody’s mind.
This is a love song in all respects. It opens your heart and you get thrilled,
because it can be interpreted as you like since it comes from the bottom of her heart.
And she’s so young, 24 years old... But she’s also energetic and passionate.
This is a passionate and impressive love.
Also, Sicily is a land of great talents, let me mention Domenico Modugno, Battiato, Carmen Consoli...
Yesterday night I wasn’t here, but I saw a very physical approach and I really like it.
It’s clear she feels that inside and, even she had some help, she’s the author.
She sang very well, she has a great determination and an excellent voice, the song is well written. There’s nothing to tell.
Maybe she should think to the English version already.
I really like singing in English, then I may sing in Portuguese, we’re still in Brazil.
Horizons get broader! Sara is calling us again. Monica, let’s start from you.
I can’t but giving her 10.
I’ll give 10+ if it’s possible, else 10.
I’m bad. I suggest 10.
If I gave 6, it wouldn’t be considered since it’s eliminated. I’ll give 10.
The total grade is 40+. The lowest grade doesn’t count, so the sum is 30!
We must change these rules, later on!
While you’re fighting with the rules, I’ll get you to know a friend of Sister Cristina:
Agnese, who met her before she became Sister Cristina. So, you have followed the path of her choice.
I met her at Steros Academy. We studied singing, dancing and acting together.
She was very good at everything. She was very shy, but, when she went on stage as she did tonight,
she showed a determination and a presence that ruffled everybody’s hair. Great, Cristina!
If once you “ruffled everybody’s hair”, you have some more strength now.
Yes, I really do, my purpose is to touch people’s hearts by announcing Jesus, this great joy I met,
and, by touching other people, maybe I get them to meet the same joy.
Sister Cristina told us she has a teacher Who is up above, so on high.
And, with Him, she’s invincible!