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After placing second in America’s Got Talent in 2010, she became the youngest solo artist to release a platinum-selling album with O Holy Night.

She dedicated herself to singing after watching The Phantom of the Opera. She placed second in the U.S.A. World Showcase Talent Competition in Las Vegas.

On America’s Got Talent, she sang a duet with Sarah Brightman. She was chosen by Donald Trump to perform the National Anthem at his presidential inauguration in January 2017.

Her parents, Lisa and Michael Evancho, ran a video security business.

She performed for President Barack Obama for the National Christmas Tree Lighting in 2010.

Evancho was born on April 9, 2000, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Lisa and Michael Evancho. Her father operated a video security business until 2010. She has an older transgender sister Juliet, a younger brother Zachary, and a younger sister Rachel. She was raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh in a Catholic family. Evancho began her education in the Pine-Richland School District, but at various times, after her career began, she received online schooling. She attended Pine-Richland High School, graduating in 2018.

Jacqueline Marie “Jackie” Evancho (/iː ˈ v æ ŋ k oʊ / ee-VANG -koh; born April 9, 2000) is an American classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age. Since 2009, she has issued a platinum-selling EP and eight albums, including three Billboard 200 top 10 debuts. She has also been the subject of three solo PBS concert specials.

After Evancho saw the film version of the musical The Phantom of the Opera as a young girl, she began singing the songs at home. Her parents have stated that they did not recognize that her voice was unusual until her first talent competition, which she entered just before her eighth birthday. In the competition, Kean Idol, Evancho finished in second place. She began taking voice lessons and singing at events, churches and nursing homes, mostly in Pennsylvania. She also started a YouTube channel, sang in the Children’s Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh (now Pittsburgh Youth Chorus) during its 2008–09 season, and performed the title role in a 2009 school musical version of Little Red Riding Hood.

Between 2008 and 2010, Evancho entered talent competitions, sang the US national anthem at a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game, issued her first album, Prelude to a Dream, and attracted interest on YouTube. In 2010, at the age of ten, she gained wide notice with her 2nd-place finish in the fifth season of America’s Got Talent. With the 2010 holiday release of her O Holy Night EP, Evancho became the best-selling debut artist of 2010, the youngest top-10 debut artist in US history and the youngest solo artist ever to go platinum in the US. In 2011, her first full-length album, Dream with Me debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and she became the youngest top-5 debut artist in UK history. Billboard ranked Evancho the top Classical Albums Artist for 2011. Later that year, Evancho released a full-length holiday album, Heavenly Christmas, and became the youngest person ever to give a solo concert at Lincoln Center in New York City as part of her first concert tour.

Evancho performed the American national anthem at the 2009 memorial ceremony for the victims of United Flight 93, the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team’s 2010 home opener, and the 2011 NHL Winter Classic. In 2011, she performed Nella Fantasia at the Beverly Hills Chefs for Seals event to support ending the annual Canadian seal hunt and became an ambassador for a Humane Society of the United States program that encourages children to help protect animals. In February 2011, she performed her first full-length concert as a headliner, in Houston, Texas, with the Houston Chamber Choir. She next sang at the 2011 Festival of the Arts Boca, along with young stars of the Metropolitan Opera. Evancho also sang at Muhammad Ali’s 2011 “Celebrity Fight Night” charity event to battle Parkinson’s disease, in Phoenix, Arizona. She performed the introduction to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on Oprah’s farewell special broadcast in May 2011.

In November 2009, Evancho released her independent debut album, Prelude to a Dream. The album featured mainly covers of classical crossover songs such as “Con te partirò”, “The Prayer”, “To Where You Are”, “Concrete Angel” and “Amazing Grace”. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 121, and at No. 2 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart, in August 2010, after Evancho’s first performance on America’s Got Talent. Evancho’s parents withdrew the album later that month, citing Evancho’s vocal progress since its release.

Evancho first caught record producer David Foster’s attention in 2009. She was selected for the regional semifinals of his “Hitman Talent Search Contest”, finishing as runner-up, and in October 2009 she sang in the “David Foster & Friends” concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

In 2009, Evancho competed in Las Vegas in the 15th annual USA World Showcase Talent Competition, where she finished in second place. At the 2009 Kean Idol contest, she was again runner-up. In other 2009 talent contests, she won the Golden Ribby Award – WonderworldTV and the Talent Quest TV Show (both in Massachusetts). Also in 2009, she sang “Ave Maria” in composer and conductor Tim Janis’s PBS television special “Celebrate America” and performed in other concerts and TV shows with Janis, who sought her out after seeing her on YouTube. She made various singing appearances around Pennsylvania in 2009 and 2010.

Evancho performed as a young child in several musicals, including Little Red Riding Hood, in which she played the title role. She also appeared as an extra in the 2010 film She’s Out of My League. Her first featured television appearance was in the 2011 episode “Back to Max”, in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place, where she sang “America the Beautiful” to work off school detention.

Evancho promoted the album with TV interviews and performances beginning with The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2010. Her other appearances included performances and interviews on The Today Show, The View, Martha Stewart Living and Fox & Friends. Evancho performed in the 2010 My Macy’s Holiday Parade in Pittsburgh, on NBC’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting special, at the 2010 National Christmas Tree lighting in Washington, D.C., on The Tonight Show and at the 27th annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, on ABC television.

Evancho’s first release on a major record label was a Columbia Records EP titled O Holy Night. It was released on November 16, 2010, and entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2, making Evancho the top-selling debut artist for 2010 and the youngest solo artist ever to debut in the top 10. It also launched at No. 1 on Billboard’s Classical Albums chart and No. 2 on Billboard’s Holiday Albums Chart. The album sold 239,000 copies in its first week. The EP was certified platinum by the RIAA, making Evancho the youngest solo artist ever to go platinum in the US.

Later in 2010, Evancho performed in 10 cities with the America’s Got Talent: Live Tour, signed a record deal with SYCO music and Columbia Records, and performed in Las Vegas with David Foster. From June 2010 until mid-2011, Evancho coached with Yvie Burnett, who has worked with other singers appearing on AGT

Her semifinal performance was “Time to Say Goodbye”. She advanced to the Top 10 round, where she performed “Pie Jesu” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem and was voted into the Final 4. Pittsburgh leaders declared the following week “Jackie Evancho Week”. Her final competition performance, on September 14, 2010, was of Gounod’s “Ave Maria”. The following evening at the AGT season finale, Evancho sang “Time to Say Goodbye” together with guest artist Sarah Brightman; then Evancho was announced as the runner-up, finishing second to singer Michael Grimm. Many viewers and commentators felt that Evancho should have won, and Grimm expressed surprise at the outcome. The show brought Evancho wide exposure to American audiences, as up to 16 million viewers watched her performances. The finale show was AGT’ s highest-rated episode in three years. She was a guest on The Tonight Show a week after the finale, where she sang and gave her first late-night interview with Jay Leno. Evancho was featured and interviewed in the 2013 book Inside AGT: The Untold Stories of America’s Got Talent.

After two earlier unsuccessful auditions for the show, Evancho was accepted as a contestant on the fifth season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent (AGT) by placing first in its 2010 YouTube competition. On August 10, 2010, Evancho performed the aria “O mio babbino caro” in the show’s quarter-final round. The judges’ reactions were effusive. Afterwards, commentators queried whether her performance had been lip-synched. On the next evening’s live show, Evancho sang an impromptu voice exercise to demonstrate that the broadcast was of her live voice. In an interview, judge Howie Mandel addressed the issue: “[W]hat people are … really saying [is] that it’s really too good to be true.”

Billboard ranked Evancho the No. 1 Classical Albums Artist of 2011, as she released three of the top four albums on the Billboard 2011 year-end Classical Albums chart. She was the No. 10 Billboard 200 Artist of 2011, and the No. 3 Internet Albums Artist. Billboard ranked Evancho the No. 2 Classical Albums Artist of 2012, as three of her albums ranked in the top seven albums on the Billboard 2012 year-end Classical Albums chart. She was the No. 37 Billboard 200 Artist of 2012.

Evancho appeared on the National League of Junior Cotillions’ list of “Ten Best-Mannered People of 2011” for “demonstrating humility and politeness as a young performer.” She was honored in 2012 by the Senator John Heinz History Center at its 20th Annual History Makers Award Dinner as one of five “distinguished Pittsburghers … recognized for their exceptional contributions to the history of Western Pennsylvania, the nation, and the world”. Evancho was the youngest person ever to be so honored. The Kean Quest Talent Search, since 2011, has given an annual “Jackie Evancho Award” to a contestant who “exemplifies courage and motivation and pushes through to follow their dreams.” In both 2011 and 2012, Billboard magazine named Evancho to its list of “21 Under 21: Music’s Hottest Minors”. In 2017, Evancho was named to the “2018” Forbes 30 Under 30 list of musicians.

Bob Boilen of NPR wrote, “I simply couldn’t believe my eyes and ears. Seeing Jackie Evancho sing for the first time is nearly beyond belief.” He called her voice “beyond-beautiful” when she performed “for a stunned audience at the NPR Music offices.” A review of her 2011 Sun Valley concert stated that “Evancho transported [her audience] with pure, joyous, unaffected notes”. Marcia Adair of the Los Angeles Times commented, in reviewing Dream With Me: [W]hat makes us feel like she will survive the journey from child star to adult performer is her magnificent sense of pitch, her natural ability to shape phrases and the ease with which she performs.” Jon Caramanica, in The New York Times, reviewed her Avery Fisher Hall concert: “In the first half of the show Ms. Evancho often receded, but toward the end of the night she found purpose, delivering ‘A Time for Us’ with punch, and closing out Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Angel’ with what felt like real yearning”. The Wall Street Journal called Evancho’s 2011 performance of the song “Angel” on the Tonight Show “moving”.

Andrew Druckenbrod, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reviewing Evancho’s 2011 Pittsburgh Opera concert, stated that “what was most impressive … was how musical she was … her focus on phrasing and an understanding of the emotion in the … musical numbers.” The review also praised “her reverberant chest voice [and] her head voice, hitting the highest register with intonation and purity” and echoed Janis: “That she continues to be greeted with skepticism is unfair. … Yes, the concert showed that Jackie is a young girl, yet one with artistry to be appreciated now without debating about what her future might hold.” Antony Walker, Pittsburgh Opera’s music director, said: “she has a very sincere way of singing. … Her voice has a lovely quality to it. It’s very simple singing but it comes from the heart. You rarely hear someone so young with such a beautiful voice”. Nekesa Mumbi Moody, writing for Associated Press, commented that, although “there is a youthful quality in Jackie’s voice, it’s hardly childlike: It’s a soprano that deftly traverses the musical scales”. Mark Kanny, in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, called her voice “beautifully in tune and well supported. … Evancho’s sincerity of delivery was affecting”.

Evancho’s television appearances to promote the album included The View, The Talk, and The Tonight Show. She gave concerts to promote the album in December 2011 in Buffalo, New York; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Pittsburgh. On its 2011 year-end charts, Billboard ranked Heavenly Christmas as the No. 4 best-selling Classical Album of the year. It ranked the album No. 41 on the 2012 year-end Canadian Albums chart.

Evancho’s 2011 Christmas album, Heavenly Christmas, was produced by Rob Mounsey. The selections include traditional Christmas carols like “The First Noël” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem”, standards like “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and “White Christmas”, and newer songs, such as “Walking in the Air” (from the 1982 animated short film The Snowman) and “Believe” (from the 2004 movie The Polar Express). The album was released on November 1, 2011, exclusively by Walmart in the US and elsewhere in the US in October 2012.

On its 2011 year-end charts, Billboard ranked Dream With Me as the No. 2 best-selling classical album for the year and as the No. 45 US album of 2011. Dream With Me was listed on the Billboard 200 for 28 weeks and the Classical Albums chart for 74 weeks. Billboard ranked Dream With Me In Concert the No. 21 music video album of 2011 and the No. 16 music video album of 2012. Dream With Me In Concert was ranked on the Billboard.biz Top Music Video chart for 64 weeks.

In July 2011, the singer began her first solo tour across the United States to promote the album. It consisted of 18 performances with orchestras, including Evancho’s New York City concert at Avery Fisher Hall in November 2011, when she was the youngest person ever to sing a solo concert at Lincoln Center. In December she headlined a concert with David Foster and Kenny G in Las Vegas. After a concert in Tokyo in January 2012 with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the tour continued in the US and concluded in June 2012.

Evancho promoted the album on television and at concerts. Her first solo concert television special for the 2011 PBS Great Performances series consisted of performances of largely the same songs as the album. The special, titled Dream With Me In Concert, was the most broadcast program of the year on the PBS network. It “became one of the most viewed specials in the 38-year-history of the Great Performances series [and] raised record amounts of money for PBS stations.” Evancho was the youngest person ever to have a special on the series. The concert was hosted by David Foster, with guest Conrad Tao. The CD/DVD release reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Music Video chart. Evancho performed “Nessun dorma” as a guest artist at the June 2011 season finale of Britain’s Got Talent, and at the September 2011 season finale of America’s Got Talent.

Evancho’s second full-length album, Dream with Me, produced by David Foster for Sony and Syco Music, was released on June 14, 2011. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, reached No. 1 on Billboard’ s Classical Albums Chart, and was certified gold by the RIAA. With this album, Evancho became the youngest artist ever to debut in the UK in the top 5. The album includes popular songs (“Angel”), classical arias (“Ombra mai fu”) and original songs, including the title track, for which Evancho contributed to the lyrics. It also includes duets with Barbra Streisand (“Somewhere”) and Susan Boyle (“The Prayer”). Target released a deluxe edition with four bonus tracks. Allmusic gave the album 3-1/2 stars out of five, and USA Today commented that Evancho’s “sweet, unblemished vocal tone and slow, careful vibrato hardly betray her young age. … But Dream’s predictable and often bombastic odes to love and faith can undermine the tween’s most appealing quality: innocence.”

Billboard ranked O Holy Night at No. 1 on its 2011 year-end Classical Albums chart. It also ranked the album as the No. 15 best-selling album of 2011 in the US and the No. 31 Canadian Album of 2011.

A San Francisco Chronicle review of a 2012 concert judged her singing “an impressive thing to witness, and Evancho’s technical precision and enormous range only serve to make it seem less fluky”, but felt that “every selection sounded alike”. A reviewer for The Denver Post wrote that Evancho “displayed her famous combo of poise and articulation”. A Naples Daily News review stated: “Her poise. Her control. Her range. … Her voice and her performance exhausted all of the superlatives in the dictionary.” In 2013, an Atlanta reviewer commented: “Her pure and well-formed vowel sounds touched the hearts of everyone at the concert.” A review in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called Evancho “awesomely talented” and “technically flawless”. The Buffalo News reviewer wrote: “there is a poignancy to the sound of this mature voice coming out of this child. Her high notes are a joy.”

A San Francisco Chronicle review of a 2012 concert judged her singing “an impressive thing to witness, and Evancho’s technical precision and enormous range only serve to make it seem less fluky”, but felt that “every selection sounded alike”. A reviewer for The Denver Post wrote that Evancho “displayed her famous combo of poise and articulation”. A Naples Daily News review stated: “Her poise. Her control. Her range. … Her voice and her performance exhausted all of the superlatives in the dictionary.” In 2013, an Atlanta reviewer commented: “Her pure and well-formed vowel sounds touched the hearts of everyone at the concert.” A review in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called Evancho “awesomely talented” and “technically flawless”. The Buffalo News reviewer wrote: “there is a poignancy to the sound of this mature voice coming out of this child. Her high notes are a joy.”

Evancho sang in the 2012 So The World May Hear Gala to benefit the Starkey Hearing Foundation, which supplies hearing aids to people in need. In August, she sang in Hiroshima, Japan, in the “Peace for World” concert and performed together with Tony Bennett at the Ironstone Amphitheatre in Murphys, California. In October, she performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the opening of Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, Texas. Evancho partnered with WhyHunger and Sephora to offer a bath product, named for her song “To Believe”, to benefit WhyHunger’s efforts to end world hunger.

Evancho has recorded with Tony Bennett and David Foster, also appearing with the latter in Japan. She returned to Japan in January 2012 to participate in the Bunkamura Orchard Concert Hall reopening program “Musical meets Symphony”, and to give her own concert there with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. While there, she sang for the Imperial family. In February 2012, Evancho sang at the US National Prayer Breakfast. In April, Evancho appeared on Dancing with the Stars, singing “Ave Maria” and “Dark Waltz” to accompany two dance teams. She performed as a guest star on the 2012 season finale of Canada’s Got Talent. In June, that year, she sang in Russia at the opening ceremonies of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, together with Dmitry Hvorostovsky and Sumi Jo.

A 2012 PBS Great Performances special called Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies features nearly the same selections as the album. Evancho began a 42-stop tour to promote the album in August 2012 in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. The first leg of the tour included concerts in two dozen North American cities through June 2013. Evancho also performed and was interviewed on television shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and CNN in late 2012. A second leg stretched from late 2013 to August 2014.

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