[WATCH] ‘The Voice’ Singing Nun Performs Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’

The video of Sister Cristina Scuccia singing Madonna’s 1984 pop classic “Like A Virgin” has gone viral.

The music video which was released on Monday has already reached more than 1 million views as of this writing.

Sister Cristina Scuccia is the singing nun who won Italy’s version of “The Voice.”

In an interview with a Catholic newspaper Avvenire, the nun said she has no intention “to provoke or shock.”

“If you read the lyrics… you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make new people new again,” Scuccia was quoted as saying.

“To release them from their past. And this is how I wanted to interpret it. That’s why we have transformed it from the pop-dance track it was into a romantic ballad,” she added.

“Like A Virgin” will be part of her first album that will be released next month.

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