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Date of birth: 23 May 1974
Birth Place: Payson, Utah, USA
Jewel Kilcher was born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah. Her grandfather, Yule Kilcher, emigrated from Switzerland to Alaska and helped write the state charter. Jewel grew up on an 800-acre homestead with her parents and two brothers. They had little in the way of modern conveniences; there was no television and the bathroom was an outhouse. She spent much of her free time writing in her journal, writing poems, and singing. At age six, she began singing with her parents in dinner shows in local hotels. She even started yodeling. At eight, her parents divorced, and Jewel went to live with her father, Atz.
After the ninth grade, Jewel moved to Hawaii and lived with her aunt. There, she was beat up everyday because of her race. In a year's time, she earned enough money to return to Alaska and moved in with her mother, Nedra, in Anchorage. At 16, they moved to Seward, Alaska, 200 miles from Homer. Jewel earned a partial scholarship Interlochen, an arts school in Michigan, where she learned to play guitar despite being dyslexic.
After she finished school, she left to join her mother in San Diego. After deciding that rent was keeping her from living, Jewel lived in her car. She went swimming in the ocean quite a bit and relied on strangers for help and food. After being fired from a job (she often worked as a waitress), she made up her mind to sing for a living thinking, "This is it. My life is a mess. I have to do what I love or die." She bought a van and began working at the Innerchange Coffeehouse. Jewel spent her time surfing and writing songs and eventually attracted a sizable crowd to her shows. Five months later, at 19, she signed a record contract with Atlantic and released Pieces of You in February 1995. She worked very hard over the next year to promote her album, and toured for days on end. A year later, sales of Pieces of You took off; it has sold well over ten million copies. Jewel now has a house in San Diego.
1995 Pieces of You East West
1998 A Night Without Armor: Poems by Jewel
1998 Spirit
1999 Joy: A Holiday Collection
2000 Chasing Down the Dawn
2001 This Way
2003 0304
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