March 25, 2008

Austrian monks win recording contract with YouTube clip

A group of Austrian monks have signed a major recording contract after submitting a YouTube Clip of their Gregorian chanting, reports cbc.ca.

"Universal Music put out a call in religious publications for "monks, men of the cloth and sacred singers" in February.

Recording executives were inundated with hundreds of demos but said the monks from the Heiligenkreuz monastery stood head and shoulders above the competition.

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