Top 10 Best Things About Jackie Evancho

1. She is talented

   She's lucky to have been given such an incredibly beautiful voice. I enjoy everything she sings, even if I don't like the song. That voice can make anything sound good.

   As early as age 9, she was performing with David Foster [Whitney Houston and Celine Dion's producer], who immediately recognized her immense talent. At age 10, she broke Michael Jackson's record as the youngest person in US chart history to have a Platinum album. At age 11, she had her first 1-hour solo TV special. Now, at age 18, she has had 7 albums hit #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart.

2. She is beautiful

   As an 18-year-old young woman, Jackie's beauty is becoming more evident.

   Her beauty seems to radiate from the inside. She just seems like a really unaffected, pleasant person you would like to be friends with, modest even. Then, when she gets on stage, you think, Wow.

3. She is a great role model

4. She gives money to charity

   At her recent performance at the David Foster Foundation charity concert in Canada, Jackie Evancho personally donated $10,000 to help support a family with a critically ill child in need of an organ transplant.

5. She doesn't use autotune

6. She will have several songs she wrote herself on her 2017 album titled Two Hearts

   The new album includes a total of four original songs she wrote herself.

   Of her last three albums, two were entirely songs she wrote herself.

7. She has the voice of an angel

8. She is still a normal kid when off stage

   Jackie attends her local public high school and performs concerts on weekends and school breaks. She hangs out with her friends just like any other teen.

   She likes to ride dirt bikes, is good at archery, goes to the beach, and enjoys lots of other regular kid activities.

   She took a bad fall while playing with airsoft guns with her brother in 2012, requiring 100 stitches to close up a serious leg injury.

9. She is kind to others

10. She is young

    She has set numerous youngest-ever standards in the music business.

    She was very young to have had three TV specials of her own.

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    She doesn't care about politics

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    She appeared as a guest with Fernando Varela on his Coming Home TV special

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13. She is saving the music industry

14. She is pitch perfect

    She never needs auto-tune or any other electronic enhancement. Not many artists today can claim that what you are hearing is the same thing the recording engineers heard.

    It's almost like they created the phrase just for her.

15. She is the youngest solo artist to go platinum

    Her first solo album went Platinum when she was 10 years old, breaking Michael Jackson's record at age 11. Although MJ was not actually solo, he was in the Jackson Five with his older brothers.

16. She is very underrated

    The way this site looks, it's virtually impossible for her to be underrated. She's positive? She has lots of personality? She's sweet and kind? What, do you all know her personally? I love James Taylor's music. I couldn't care less if he's sweet and kind, or has a pleasant personality. I've never met him, nor am I likely to. How do any of you have a clue in the world what her personality is really like?

    Professional singers across the globe know who she is and have performed with her, even though not many kids her own age know of her work.

17. She is positive

18. She practices before performing

19. She is different from the other singers

20. She is loved by her fellow musicians

    Among her numerous admirers are David Foster, Barbra Streisand, Sumi Jo, Katherine Jenkins, and now the "Songwriters Hall of Fame" for her amazing rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," which she performed at their special request at the song's Hall of Fame induction.

    She has now added the all-time greats Andrea Bocelli and José Carreras to the list of people she has sung on stage with. Pretty unprecedented for someone who just turned 15 years old.

    She has now added Plácido Domingo to the list, as she has two fine duets included in his latest album.

21. She has had her own TV special

    Jackie has had her own PBS "Great Performances" TV concert special twice already, and she will be taping her third special sometime in the fall of 2014.

    She had her own TLC special, "Growing Up Evancho," in 2017, which focused on her and her inspirational family.

22. She sang at the White House

    She received backlash on social media for agreeing to perform at the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. She said that her performance was apolitical and she doesn't do politics.

    One of her appearances was at an outdoor Christmas tree lighting event, where the temperature was around 10 degrees.

    She performed there twice - once for a Christmas event and once at the National Prayer Breakfast.

23. She is humble

24. She has a photographic memory for music and lyrics

25. She sang at the United Nations

    She performed at the "Children's Rights" conference in November of 2014.

26. She recorded a song with "A Cappella King" Peter Hollens

    Peter Hollens also appeared at her concert in Portland, and they performed two songs together.

27. She has amazing songs