Evancho entered talent competitions, sang the US national anthem at a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game
She issued her first album, Prelude to a Dream, and attracted interest on YouTube. In 2010
With the 2010 holiday release of her O Holy Night EP, Evancho became the best-selling debut artist of 2010, the youngest top-10 debut artist in US history.
In 2011, her first full-length album, Dream with Me, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and she became the youngest top-5 debut artist in UK history.