This week, her “Dream with Me” album outsold every artist except Adele, selling more albums then Bon Iver, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga.
To be fair, Jackie’s album was just released June 14th and she has had tons of air time on the June PBS fund drive, so time will tell if her staying power is real.
We think it is.
Related: Video - Meet Jackie Evancho, She’ll Melt Your Heart and Make You Cry
All you have to do is hear her sing and you can see she has what it takes to be a strong contender on today’s music scene.
She considers herself a crossover opera singer, and knows she will not get by on just singing opera.
But boy can see sing opera.
Just over a year ago, Evancho was taking second place on America’s Got Talent and today she’s singing duets with Susan Boyle and Barbara Streisand.
One of our favorites is her version of Sarah McLachlan’s hit “Angel” that was released as a single, and as a track on “Dream With Me.”
Related: Watch Jackie Evancho Sing “Angel”
After meeting 17-time Grammy Award winner David Foster, the two worked on creating and producing her current album - and the results have been better than both of them expected.
When asked about the title for her new album Jackie says,
“Well, the last CD that I had done was called 'Prelude to a Dream' and that's the beginning of a dream. Prelude is usually the beginning of a song or beginning of something. With 'Dream With Me,' I've kind of already made it. So, that dream has become real life, so now it's the real thing.”
And her dream has come true, and the first stop was the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota Florida where she filmed her PBS special.
And we have to say, her PBS special was amazing.
But what's in store for the new super star now that her album has been released and the World has discovered her?
Evancho says with all that has happened, she has to attend school on-line and misses her friends she used to see every day,
“Cyber School is really, really hard. And it’s boring, you know? I’d rather do normal school than go to online school.”
When asked if she is able to understand the deep emotion in some of her songs she says,
“All of the songs are emotional to me. 'Angel' is really sad because it’s about suicide. It’s really emotional. It’s really easy for me to show my emotions but it’s hard to listen to because it’s so sad.”
Watch Jackie Evancho Sing “Angel” by Sarah McLachlan
She sure does know how to make your heart melt.
When asked where she wants to go from here, and what her next steps are she says,
“I want to continue with my music but I also want to be a normal kid. This whole thing has happened so fast my parents and I are still just trying to sort it all out. For now, I’m just going to keep singing and see what happens next.”
Jackie says opera is her first love but she also likes the music of Josh Groban and Lady Gaga. She has also started writing and would like to start creating her own songs from start to finish.
Evancho also likes to play with her many pets. In fact, she calls her pet collection her “pet menagerie” and it includes nine hermit crabs, two guinea pigs, three dogs, two cats, a lizard, three frogs and four ducks.
The young opera crossover singer is currently on a mini tour with upcoming shows in Sun Valley Idaho, Atlanta Georgia, Highland Park Illinois, Omaha Nebraska, and Dallas Texas.
Jackie has already appeared on the Jay Leno Show and can be seen on CNN’s Piers Morgan show June 30th.
Go get ‘em kiddo.
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