Jackie Evancho, the tiny child with the extraordinarily big voice and perfect pitch, will release her Syco/Columbia Records CD/DVD debut, "O Holy Night," on Nov. 16. The CD features Jackie singing Christmas favorites "O Holy Night" and "Silent Night," as well as new studio recordings of "Pie Jesu," and "Panis Angelicus," songs millions of people first heard the 10-year old Pittsburgh prodigy sing on "America's Got Talent." The set also includbes a DVD with her "AGT" performances, her audition video, and a new interview with the singer.

Although this summer's edition of "America's Got Talent" introduced the world to Evancho and her astonishing vocal talent, her musical story begins before her life-changing appearance on the talent contest. The starting point came from what seemed like just another outing for the Evancho family: a trip to the cinema to see "The Phantom of the Opera."

"We went to see it in the movie theater. It was very, very good," Jackie told Pennsylvania television station WPXI. "It was a very long movie and we were mesmerized by it." Her mother, Lisa, purchased the DVD and something in Andrew Lloyd Webber's score resonated in Jackie, igniting a passion in her soul. Still, as she sang the melodramatic tunes from the film around the house in her shimmering soprano, "We really didn't think [her voice] was anything out of the ordinary," says her dad, Mike. "She's our oldest daughter; there were no other seven-year-olds to compare it to."

Mike and Lisa remember the night they realized that Jackie didn't have just a nice voice, she had a remarkable gift. "At her first little talent competition, we invited my parents," Mike recalls. "She started to sing, my folks looked at each other like 'What's going on here?' Plus with the crowd reaction, then we knew."

After coming in second place to a 20-year old opera singer, Jackie entered more contests as her talents blossomed. She caught the attention of Grammy-winning producer David Foster, when she won a regional competition that allowed her to sing as Foster accompanied her on piano. "He thought her voice was extraordinary," Mike says. She performed the National Anthem at the Pittsburgh Pirates 2010 home opener, as well as at an event honoring Chuck Yeager.

Next for Jackie will be a full album of classical crossover material that she will start recording in early 2011. "It won't just be the songs that everyone seems to repeat," Lisa says. "It will be covers of existing material that perhaps has new arrangements to it." Jackie is also starting to write lyrics, but for now, Lisa stresses, "it's school work and family life and her career."

Plus, she has to have time to play with the family's pet menagerie, which she cataloged during her "Tonight Show" appearance as nine hermit crabs, two guinea pigs, three dogs, two cats, a lizard, three frogs and four ducks, leading host Jay Leno to ask if she lives on an ark.

Keeping her extraordinary life as normal as possible is vital to Mike and Lisa. "She gets in trouble like any other 10 year old," Mike says. "There are times she can't play with her friends because her homework isn't done…She has to do the normal chore stuff: clean her room, straighten up."

But most 10 year olds haven't decided what to be when they grow up. As Jackie told WPXI, "my dream is to make a career out of this." Yet, even at a tender age, she unselfishly realizes her success can inspire others. "If they have a dream, they should always go for it because that's what happened to me and my dream came true."

And that dream is just beginning.