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If Jackie Evancho looks familiar, it’s likely because you’ve seen her on the small screen belting out operatic versions of well-known standards, or perhaps even the national anthem.

But the Pittsburgh nativeis no longer the classical singing 10-year-old who came in second place on America’s Got Talent.

Now 24, Evancho has ventured into pop music as a singer/songwriter, with a new EP, Solla, released May 3.

“I think honestly, as somebody who grew up never really following or conforming to what’s normal, it’s OK to be the kid that doesn’t fit in and it’s okay to embrace the things that make you different,” Evancho tells Pittsburgh City Paper.

Her new music is a far cry from the covers of “O Holy Night” and “All I Ask of You” that used to be her bread and butter.

The pop sound has an ‘80s new-wave feel.

While Evancho calls all the songs on the EP her “babies,” she really likes “Smoking Gun” and “Consequences.”

“’Consequences’ was the very first song I ever wrote that I kind of saved in the vault for years,”

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