Twenty years ago, the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos released an album which rocketed to the top of the charts. Chant was an instant, and enduring, hit. It has sold over 6,000,000 copies.

“You have to understand, we are monks, not rock stars.” Those are the words of an unnamed representative of the Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos, widely quoted in an Associated Press ...

A group of monks from a 12th century monastery just outside Vienna have secured a lucrative recording contract with Universal Music, the label better known for hellraising pop stars such as Amy ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria - Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...

Hamburg: Move over Madonna, because a group of modest monastery monks have rocketed into the Top 10 in Germany's charts with an album of Gregorian chants. The album "Chant - Music for Paradise" by the ...

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