Friday, October 24, 2008

THE IRISH SINGING PRIESTS SIGN FOR SONY IN 2 MILLION DOLLARS RECORD DEAL - IS THIS WRONG?

It sounds like a joke, and yes, it perhaps should be a joke, except 2 Million Dollars is NO JOKE.

You could call them New Clergymen on the Block: three Roman Catholic priests from Northern Ireland who on occasion swap their rosary beads for microphones and their parishes for studio time.

Fathers Eugene O'Hagan and Martin O'Hagan, who are brothers, and David Delargy have been in the priesthood for some 20 years. But they've been singing together since their early teens.

In February they recorded a demo in Belfast which they sent off -- as Eugene O'Hagan puts it -- to "the powers that be." Sony BMG responded almost instantly with a very nice offering indeed, a record deal reportedly to the tune of somewhere north of $2 million.




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