Put Your Dress Down and Sing: A Memoir

by Darlene Koldenhoven

2026 · Paperback, eBook

Grammy-winning vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven — the tambourine-waving nun of Sister Act and a soloist on Yanni: Live at the Acropolis — looks back on nearly fifty years in show business, from a strict Chicago girlhood to the world’s great stages.

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