Jackie evancho family biography

American singer

Musical artist

Jacqueline Marie Evancho (ee-VANG-koh;^[1] born April 9, 2000) is an American singer who gained wide recognition at an early age, singing primarily classical crossover covers.

Since 2009, she has issued nine albums, a platinum-selling EP and two further EPs; three of her discs debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.^[2][3] She has also presented three solo PBS concert specials.

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 NightEP, 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