Check out His Holiness’s debut single, Wake Up! Go! Go!
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But the pontiff has only gone and outdone himself by starring on a prog-rock album released on iTunes this week. “Forward!” he says. “It is a duty to be vigilant, not to allow the pressures, the temptations and the sins to boring our sensibility of the beauty of holiness”.
Extracts from speeches that Pope Francis has made from the day he was elected March 13, 2013, through early this year, a lot of them in Italian and Spanish, but also some in English and Portuguese, are set to music from composers who include Giorgio Kriegsch, Tony Pagliuca, Mite Balduzzi, Giuseppe Dati, Lorenzo Piscopo and Dino Doni.
But, we can all take comfort in the Holy Father’s continued message of spreading unity and hope through a progressive rock album that will be released titled, Wake Up! When Don Giulio Neroni asked me to collaborate on this CD, I immediately accepted with enthusiasm.
The Pope has released an album of music described by the musical experts at Rolling Stone as “prog-rock”. “For this reason, the voice of Pope Francis in Wake Up! dialogues music. Forward!” has just been revealed, according to Rolling Stone.
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The record announcement comes as the Argentinean-born Pope Francis wraps up his visit to the USA this week. He’ll spend the weekend in Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families before heading back to the Vatican on Sunday night.
