Song:O Holy Night
EP/DVD:O Holy Night
Singer Jackie Evancho became popular as a ten year old on America's Got Talent. She probably had her greatest success with the 2010 Christmas EP/DVD O Holy Night. The big question about a child singer is can she be a successful adult singer. She was born Apr. 9, 2000 in Pittsburgh. She liked the film musical The Phantom of the Opera so much she sang along with the DVD. Then at eight years old she started entering talent competitions and she started a Youtube channel. Her big break came when producer David Foster spotted her in one of those talent competitions and she performed on one of his concerts. He produced the 2009 CD Prelude To A Dream which her parents released. The album was withdrawn after Jackie successfully auditioned for America's Got Talent. She was a big sensation on that show to the point that she had to prove she wasn't lip synching. Jackie finished second but she signed a record deal with Simon Cowell's SYCO label with Columbia distribution. Her major label debut was the Christmas EP O Holy Night. It came with a DVD of her America's Got Talent performances. The EP was produced by British producer Marius de Vries who has worked with Bjork and Madonna. The EP sold over a million copies and it's still available. Jackie re-recorded O Holy Night for the bonus CD of her 2014 CD Awakening and that version appears on the 2016 CD Someday At Christmas. So her original recording of O Holy Night only appears on the 2010 EP. I guess at some point Cowell sold her contract to Sony because she now records for Sony's Portrait label. They are promoting her as a classical crossover artist. So her latest CD Two Hearts has a CD of classical style music. And the second CD has five songs that Jackie co-wrote. So it looks like she is trying to broaden her musical base. I suppose she will try jazz next or maybe Broadway. Her album sales have steadily decreased since O Holy Night. It doesn't seem like she will be successful as an adult. She has to find out what works for her. Well, at least she was a child singing star. Here's Jackie Evancho performing O Holy Night on Today Dec. 2010.
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