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Singing priest becomes YouTube hit

Father Bruno Maggioni, from Limbiate near Milan, has become a star on YouTube after a video of him singing and dancing at a wedding was posted on the video website.

Published: 18 July 2013 17:10 CEST
Singing priest becomes YouTube hit
The online reaction to Father Bruno Maggioni's performance has been mixed. Screenshot: Corriere TV

The clip shows him singing, dancing and clapping along to the 1980s hit 'Mamma Maria', by the Italian group Ricchi e Poveri. The happy couple and wedding guests soon join in.

The video has pulled in almost one million viewers and is one of the website's most-watched clips this week.

One viewer commented: "I want to get to know Father Bruno…he's a good example of the church!", while another said: "I'm not much of a Catholic but I respect him and I bet he knows how to engage with his followers."

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Danish PM lets her hair down in Friday coronavirus singalong

Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister who has driven through one of the fastest and most far-reaching coronavirus lockdowns in Europe, showed her soft side on Friday when she joined in a TV singing event.

Published: 4 April 2020 09:00 CEST
Danish PM lets her hair down in Friday coronavirus singalong
Mette Frederiksen showed fairly good singing skills. Photo: Screenshot/Facebook
Frederiksen was filmed in her kitchen and living room, enjoying Danish public broadcaster DR's program 'Fællessang – hver for sig', or 'Community singing, each for themselves'. 
 
Demonstrating a good, powerful singing voice, Frederiksen hit almost all of the notes in her rendition of the '80s classic  “Vågner I natten”, or 'Waking up in the night', by Dodo and the Dodos, which she sang along to while doing the dishes at home. 
 
 
The program on DR, also included 'Kvinde min', or 'my woman, by the Danish '70s rockers Gasolin'. The song, written by the legendary Kim Larsen, was performed by Pernille Rosendahl, lead singer of the Danish rock band The Storm. 
 
“One of the things I think is so nice about it is that Kim makes a love statement for a woman. But he also says in the text that he is not perfect,” Rosendahl told DR.  “And that, I think, is very good to remember in this time. We're just people.” 
 
 
The singalong, which DR started running on Friday nights a week ago, and which it will continue throughout the coronavirus lockdown, features some of the country's most popular singers singing classic songs, either their own or covers. 
 
The singer Michael Falch sang his classic 'I et land uden høje bjerge', 'In a land without high mountains'. 
 
At the request of the haulage firm Svend Munding Transport, Dafne Stilund Nielsen, who won The Voice Junior in 2017, sung 'Lyse nætter', or 'Bright nights' by Alberte Winding. 
 
The programme also featured Faroese singer Teitur Lassen, who performed 'Regnvejrsdag i november' ('Rainy Day in November'). 
 
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