Jacqueline Marie Evancho is an American classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age.
94 Facts About Jackie Evancho
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Between 2008 and 2010, Jackie 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.
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Later that year, Jackie 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.
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In 2012, Jackie Evancho released Songs from the Silver Screen, her third top-10 album debut.
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Jackie Evancho appeared in the 2013 Robert Redford film The Company You Keep.
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In 2017, Jackie Evancho performed the US national anthem at the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump and became the youngest person ever to perform a concert series at Cafe Carlyle.
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Jackie Evancho has given concert tours in support of each of her studio albums.
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Jackie Evancho appeared in 2020 as a contestant on The Masked Singer.
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Jackie Evancho was born on April 9,2000, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Lisa and Michael Jackie Evancho.
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Jackie Evancho's father operated a video security business until 2010.
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Jackie Evancho has an older sister Juliet, a younger brother Zachary, and a younger sister Rachel.
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Jackie Evancho was raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh in a Catholic family.
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Jackie Evancho began her education in the Pine-Richland School District, but at various times, after her career began, she received online schooling.
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Jackie Evancho's parents 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, placing second.
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Jackie Evancho began taking voice lessons and singing at events, churches and nursing homes, mostly in Pennsylvania.
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In 2009, Jackie Evancho competed in Las Vegas in the 15th annual USA World Showcase Talent Competition, where she finished in second place.
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Jackie Evancho made various singing appearances around Pennsylvania in 2009 and 2010, including singing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team's 2010 home opener.
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Jackie Evancho first caught record producer David Foster's attention in 2009.
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In November 2009, Jackie Evancho released her independent debut album, Prelude to a Dream.
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Jackie Evancho's parents withdrew the album later that month, citing Jackie Evancho's vocal progress since its release.
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Jackie Evancho sang an impromptu voice exercise to demonstrate her live vocals.
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At the AGT season finale, Jackie Evancho sang "Time to Say Goodbye" together with guest artist Sarah Brightman; then Jackie Evancho was announced as the runner-up, finishing second to singer Michael Grimm.
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Many viewers and commentators felt that Jackie Evancho should have won, and Grimm expressed surprise at the outcome.
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Jackie Evancho 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.
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Jackie Evancho was featured and interviewed in the 2013 book Inside AGT: The Untold Stories of America's Got Talent.
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Later in 2010, Jackie 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.
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From June 2010 until mid-2011, Jackie Evancho coached with Yvie Burnett, who has worked with other singers appearing on AGT.
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Jackie Evancho's first release on a major record label was a Columbia Records EP titled O Holy Night.
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Jackie Evancho promoted the album with TV interviews and performances beginning with The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2010.
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Jackie 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, DC, on The Tonight Show and at the 27th annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, on ABC television.
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The album includes popular songs, classical arias and original songs, including the title track, for which Jackie Evancho contributed to the lyrics.
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Jackie 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.
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Allmusic's review gives the album three stars, commenting: "Jackie Evancho's vocals are impressive as always, and the arrangements are mostly tasteful, with only occasional moments of bombast".
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Jackie Evancho gave concerts to promote the album in December 2011 in Buffalo, New York; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Pittsburgh.
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Jackie Evancho began a 42-stop tour to promote the album in August 2012 in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Jackie Evancho performed and was interviewed on television shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and CNN in late 2012.
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Jackie Evancho released her fifth full-length album, Awakening, on September 23,2014, on Sony Masterworks' Portrait Records label.
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Jackie Evancho promoted the album with a concert tour that began in November 2014 and continued into 2016, and a third PBS special.
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Jackie Evancho promoted the album in a return to America's Got Talent as a guest artist at Radio City Music Hall during the show's ninth season.
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Jackie Evancho appeared on NBC's Today Show, The Queen Latifah Show, the Oprah Winfrey Network and the Dr Phil show.
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Jackie Evancho's Awakening tour began in November 2014 with stops across the US and one concert in each of Costa Rica and Canada.
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Jackie Evancho released her sixth full-length album and third holiday collection, Someday at Christmas, on October 28,2016, on the Sony Masterworks' Portrait label.
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Jackie Evancho promoted the album by appearing on the Fall 2016 cover of, and in an interview, for Inspiring Lives Magazine.
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Jackie Evancho included songs from the album in her 2016 holiday concerts and performed on NBC's Today Show, Fox's Good Day Chicago, at the America's Got Talent Holiday Spectacular and the Harry show.
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Jackie Evancho released her seventh full-length album, Two Hearts, on March 31,2017, on Sony's Portrait label.
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In May 2017, Jackie Evancho began a tour to promote Two Hearts.
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In February 2019, Jackie Evancho competed on America's Got Talent: The Champions but did not advance to the final.
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Jackie Evancho performed three further concerts with Michael Feinstein at his eponymous club in New York in August 2019.
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Jackie Evancho stated in 2019 that she was working with vocal coach Joan Lader.
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In 2020 Jackie Evancho began recording an album of covers of Joni Mitchell songs, produced by Fred Mollin, at Sound Stage Studio in Nashville.
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Jackie Evancho released the disc, titled Carousel of Time, on September 9,2022.
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Jackie Evancho performed the American national anthem at the 2009 memorial ceremony for the victims of United Flight 93 and the 2011 NHL Winter Classic.
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Jackie Evancho next sang at the 2011 Festival of the Arts Boca, along with young stars of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Jackie Evancho sang at Muhammad Ali's 2011 "Celebrity Fight Night" charity event to battle Parkinson's disease, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Jackie Evancho performed the introduction to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on Oprah's farewell special broadcast in May 2011.
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Jackie Evancho 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.
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In February 2012, Jackie Evancho sang at the US National Prayer Breakfast.
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Jackie Evancho performed as a guest star on the 2012 season finale of Canada's Got Talent.
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Jackie 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.
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Jackie 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.
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Jackie Evancho joined over 200 Cirque du Soleil performers at Bellagio in Las Vegas in the 2013 event "One Night for One Drop on World Water Day", to benefit the One Drop Foundation's worldwide clean water access and education programs.
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Jackie Evancho dominated the fantastic finale flying in as an angel [lowered] on a harness from the theater rooftop.
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Jackie Evancho sang the US national anthem on Thanksgiving Day, at the Green Bay Packers vs Detroit Lions football game, broadcast on Fox.
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In early 2014, Evancho was the performer for Susan G Komen's Perfect Pink Party in Palm Beach, Florida, to benefit breast cancer research.
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Jackie Evancho then headlined a concert with the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California, to benefit the Loma Linda University Children's Hospital.
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Jackie Evancho appeared in the 2014 gala to benefit Chicago's WTTW television and WFMT radio stations and in the 2014 National Memorial Day Concert, broadcast by PBS.
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Jackie Evancho performed at the Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014 awards dinner singing "Over the Rainbow".
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In 2015, Jackie Evancho made a video to support the Humane Society's fight against seal hunting.
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Jackie Evancho joined Andrea Bocelli as a guest in his concert in Thailand.
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In October 2015, Jackie Evancho performed at a benefit for the Global Lyme Alliance in New York City.
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Jackie Evancho released an original pop song by Peter Zizzo, "Apocalypse".
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Jackie Evancho entertained at the 2016 Project Sunshine benefit gala and returned to Washington, DC, to participate in the 2016 broadcast and live performance of A Capitol Fourth.
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In September, Jackie Evancho sang at the David Foster Foundation's 2016 fundraiser at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to help pay for pediatric organ transplants and support patients' families.
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Jackie Evancho sang the US national anthem at the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017.
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Jackie Evancho stated that her decision to perform was apolitical, but her selection drew comment on social media and in the press, "from both sides of the political spectrum".
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Jackie Evancho stated that profits from the release would go to LGBT "charities in support of my sister Juliet".
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In 2018, Jackie Evancho performed at the annual "Romance of the Mission" benefit gala to preserve and support the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.
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Jackie Evancho has stated that her career was interrupted in 2019 by a mental breakdown related to the eating disorder and body dysmorphia that has she struggled with since 2015; she stated that during the COVID-19 pandemic she was in a car accident in which she fractured her back, and her parents divorced.
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Jackie Evancho performed a concert titled "Home for the Holidays" in December 2021 at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania.
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Jackie Evancho performed as a young child in several musicals, including Little Red Riding Hood, in which she played the title role.
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Jackie Evancho appeared as an extra in the 2010 film She's Out of My League.
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Jackie Evancho made a guest appearance in the 2011 episode "Back to Max", in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place, where her character sang "America the Beautiful" to work off school detention.
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Jon Weisman of Variety wrote that Jackie Evancho "showed she's more than a singing prodigy with her earnest sweetness".
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Jackie Evancho modeled for GUESS Kids in 2012 and for Justice Girls Clothing in 2014, and she occasionally has appeared in other product advertisements and public service announcements.
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Jackie Evancho's voice is so pure and natural, there's no flaw in it.
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Jackie Evancho takes breaths sometimes where an adult would not, but that's just because she's young and little.
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Critic Tim Page wrote that Jackie Evancho "has many years of work ahead of her before she becomes any sort of musician".
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Yes, the concert showed that Jackie Evancho is a young girl, yet one with artistry to be appreciated now without debating about what her future might hold.
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Jackie 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".
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Jackie Evancho was the youngest person ever to be so honored.
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In 2017, Jackie Evancho was named to the "2018" Forbes 30 Under 30 list of musicians.
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Jackie Evancho was the No 10 Billboard 200 Artist of 2011, and the No 3 Internet Albums Artist.
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Jackie Evancho was the No 37 Billboard 200 Artist of 2012.
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Jackie Evancho was ranked the No 12 Classical Albums Artist of 2016, as her 2016 holiday album, Someday at Christmas, was the No 27 best-selling classical album of 2016, and Awakening was the No 31 best-selling classical album of 2016.