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"Before she was a singer, Jackie Evancho was a songwriter.
That goes way back into her childhood, considering the vocalist was 10 when she first rose to stardom after her appearance on “America’s Got Talent.”
“I was always writing little songs and poetry, even before I was singing,” said the now 23-year-old Evancho, a Pittsburgh native who brings “An Evening of Holiday Cheer” to Westminster College Dec. 2 as part of the school’s Celebrity Series.
“I’m excited. I gotta keep my Pa. roots,” laughed Evancho who splits her time between New York City and Pittsburgh.
While the evening will feature the more “classical Jackie,” “pop Jackie” will also make an appearance during the show highlighting traditional holiday music but punctuated with a few newer songs.
Among those will be “At Least I Have Santa,” a song Evancho wrote and released last year.
“I had just gone through a breakup and it’s about me accepting that I was going to be alone for Christmas and finding a peace with that,” Evancho said in a phone interview.
The song is reflective of the personal nature of Evancho’s songwriting, which has taken her career in more edgy indie-pop direction.
“I will always love classical, but in my songwriting, I realized I really want to be genuine to who I am and who I’m becoming,” Evancho said. “I’m not who I was as a 10-year-old. It’s cool that I can perform different styles. Yes, there’s classical Jackie and there’s pop Jackie, but they’re all me and they’re all genuine.”
Earlier this month, Evancho released her latest single, “Consequences,” and plans to eventually compile an album of her original works.
“Right now, the plan is to keep releasing songs,” she explained. “Albums don’t work as well any more in the world of social media.”
In addition, Evancho has dabbled in acting and modeling, but intends to keep music first.
“Songwriting is something I’ll always do because I have an unlimited amount of ideas,” Evancho said, adding that the personal nature of her work can be somewhat therapeutic. “I describe it as having a wound that you’ve reopened and you’re painting with the blood. It sounds kind of gross, but you’re making something beautiful with the pain.”
Evancho will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at Westminster’s Will W. Orr Auditorium. The show is sponsored by Springfield Restaurant Group and supported by the Caroline Knox Memorial Trust Fund. To purchase tickets, contact Georgene Gib, box office manager, at (724) 946-7354 or visit
www.westminster.edu/celebrity."
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