1. Early life

2. Career
    1993–1997: Beginnings and Pieces of You   1998–2002: Spirit and other ventures    2003–2006: 0304 and Goodbye Alice in Wonderland   2007–2008: Label shift and Perfectly Clear  2009–2013: Lullaby and other releases   2014–present: Picking Up the Pieces and Never Broken  

3. Artistry

4. Philanthropy

5. Personal life

6. Accolades

7. Discography
    Studio albums  Videos 

8. Filmography

9. Tours

10. Publications

11. References

12. Works cited

13. Further reading

14. External links

Kilcher was raised in Homer, Alaska, where she grew up singing and yodeling as a duo with her father, a local musician. At age fifteen, she received a partial scholarship at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where she studied operatic voice. After graduating, she began writing and performing at clubs and coffeehouses in San Diego, California. Based on local media attention, she was offered a recording contract with Atlantic Records, who released her debut album, Pieces of You, in 1995; it went on to become one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, going 12-times platinum. The debut single from the album, "Who Will Save Your Soul", peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100; two others, "You Were Meant for Me" and "Foolish Games", reached number two on the Hot 100, and were listed on Billboard{{'}}s 1997 year-end singles chart, as well as Billboard{{'}}s 1998 year-end singles chart.

Her subsequent album, Spirit, was released in 1998, followed by This Way (2001). In 2003, she released 0304, which marked a departure from her previous folk-oriented records, featuring electronic arrangements and elements of dance-pop. In 2008, she released Perfectly Clear, her first country album; it debuted atop Billboard{{'}}s Top Country Albums chart and featured three singles, "Stronger Woman", "I Do", and "'Til It Feels Like Cheating". Jewel released her first independent album, Lullaby, in 2009.

Jewel has also had endeavors in writing and acting; in 1998 she released a collection of poetry, and the following year appeared in a supporting role in Ang Lee's Western film Ride with the Devil (1999) which earned her critical acclaim.

Early life

Jewel was born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, the second child of Attila Kuno "Atz" Kilcher and Lenedra Jewel Kilcher ({{née}} Carroll).{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=7}}^[2] At the time of her birth, her parents had been living in Utah with her elder brother, Shane; her father was attending Brigham Young University.^[3] She is a first cousin once removed of actress Q'orianka Kilcher.^[4] Her father, originally from Alaska, was a Mormon, though the family stopped attending The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after her parents' divorce when she was eight years old.^[5] Her paternal grandfather, Yule Kilcher, was a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional convention and a state senator of German descent^[6][9] who settled in Alaska after emigrating from Switzerland.^[7][8] He was also the first recorded person to cross the Harding Icefield.^[9]

Shortly after her birth, the family relocated to Anchorage, Alaska, settling on the Kilcher family's {{convert|770|acre|ha|adj=on}} homestead.{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=8}} There, her younger brother, Atz Jr., was born.{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=8}} She also has a half-brother, Nikos, who was primarily raised in Oregon by his mother, with whom her father had a brief relationship; she would later become close to him in adulthood.{{sfn|Kilcher|2016|p=9}} After her parents' divorce in 1981, Kilcher lived with her father in Homer, Alaska.^[10][11] The house she grew up in lacked indoor plumbing and had only a simple outhouse.^[12] The Kilcher family is featured on the Discovery Channel show The Last Frontier, which chronicles their day-to-day struggles living in the Alaskan wilderness. Recalling her upbringing, she said: {{quote|We lived far from town. We had to walk {{convert|2|mi|km}} just to get to the saddle barn I was raised in... No running water, no heat—we had a coal stove and an outhouse and we mainly lived off of what we could kill or can. We picked berries and made jam. We caught fish to freeze and had gardens and cattle to live on. I rode horses every day in the summer beneath the Alaskan midnight sun. I loved it there.^[13]}}

According to Kilcher, the first song she learned to sing was "Saint Louis Blues".^[14] In her youth, Kilcher and her father sometimes earned a living by performing music in roadhouses and taverns as a father-daughter duo; they also often sang at hotels in Anchorage, including the Hotel Captain Cook and the Hilton Anchorage.^[13]{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=18}} It was during this time that Kilcher learned to yodel from her father.{{sfn|McFarland|1998|pages=18–19}} She would later credit the time she spent in bars as integral to her formative years: "I saw women who would compromise themselves for compliments, for flattery; or men who would run away from themselves by drinking until they ultimately killed themselves."{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=24}}

At age fifteen, while working at a dance studio in Anchorage, she was referred by the studio instructor to Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where she applied and received a partial scholarship to study operatic voice.^[15] Local businesses in her hometown of Homer donated items for auction to help allocate additional funds, and raised a total of $11,000 to pay the remainder of her first year's tuition.^[13] She subsequently relocated to Michigan to attend Interlochen, where she received classical training, and also learned to play guitar.{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=27}} She began writing songs on guitar at age sixteen.{{Sfn|DeMain|2004|p=200}} While in school, she would often perform live in coffeehouses.^[16] After graduating, she relocated to San Diego, California, where she worked in a coffee shop and as a phone operator at a computer warehouse.{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=34}}

Career

1993–1997: Beginnings and Pieces of You

For a time, Kilcher lived in her car while traveling around the country doing street performances and small gigs, mainly in Southern California.{{Sfn|DeMain|2004|p=200}} She gained recognition by singing at The Inner Change Cafe and Java Joe's in San Diego;{{Sfn|DeMain|2004|pages=201–202}} she would later make her debut record at Java Joe's when it was in Poway, where she had worked as a barista.^[17] Her friend Steve Poltz's band, The Rugburns, played the same venues.^[18] She later collaborated with Poltz on some of her songs, including "You Were Meant for Me". (He also appeared in the song's second, better-known video.) The Rugburns opened for Jewel on her Tiny Lights tour in 1997. Poltz appeared in Jewel's band on the Spirit World Tour 1999 playing guitar.^[19]

Kilcher was discovered by Inga Vainshtein in August 1993 when John Hogan, lead singer from the local San Diego band Rust, whom Vainshtein was managing, called to tell her about a girl surfer who sang at a local coffee shop on Thursdays. Vainshtein drove to The Inner Change with representative Atlantic Records, and after the show called Danny Goldberg, the head of Atlantic Record's West Coast operations, and asked him to pay for her demo, since at the time she was living in a van and lacked the means to record any of her own music.{{Sfn|DeMain|2004|p=200}} Vainshtein, who at the time was working as a Vice President of Productions at Paramount, went on to become her manager and was instrumental in creating a major bidding war that led to her deal with Atlantic Records.^[20] She continued to manage Jewel until the end of the first album cycle and shaped the path of the first five years of Jewel's career. Jewel's debut album Pieces of You was released under the eponym of Jewel, in 1995 when she was 21 years old.{{sfn|McFarland|1998|p=118}} Recorded in a studio on singer Neil Young's ranch, it included Young's backing band, The Stray Gators, who played on his Harvest and Harvest Moon albums. Part of the album was recorded live at The Inner Change Cafe in San Diego, where she had risen to local fame. The album stayed on the Billboard 200 for two years, reaching number four at its peak.^[21] The album spawned the Top 10 hits "You Were Meant for Me", "Who Will Save Your Soul", and "Foolish Games". The album eventually sold over 12 million copies in the United States alone.^[22]

In the late 1990s, Mike Connell created an electronic mailing list for fans, known as "Everyday Angels". Although Jewel herself does not subscribe to this mailing list, she maintained communication with her EA fans. On July 18 and 19, 1996, she gave a two-day concert known as "JewelStock" at the Bearsville Theatre. Jewel allowed the concert to be taped, and fans circulated the concert without profit.^[23]

1998–2002: Spirit and other ventures

Jewel was chosen to sing the American national anthem at the opening of the Super Bowl XXXII in January 1998 in San Diego. She was introduced as "San Diego's own Jewel!" but criticized for lip syncing the anthem to a digitally-recorded track of her own voice. This was especially noticeable due to her missing her cue and not mouthing the first words. Super Bowl producers have since admitted that they attempt to have all performers pre-record their vocals.^[25] She performed the "Star-Spangled Banner" again in the 2003 NBA Finals in one of the New Jersey Nets's home games.^[26]

On May 19, 1998, she published a book of poetry titled A Night Without Armor. Although it sold over 1 million copies and was a New York Times best seller, it received mixed reviews.^[27] During an MTV interview in 1998, Kurt Loder pointed out the incorrect usage, in her book of poetry, of the word "casualty" (instead of the intended "casually") to which Jewel responded, "You're a smartass for pointing that out. Next topic."^[28] In the fall of 1998, the poet Beau Sia composed a book-length response to A Night Without Armor that he titled A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge.^[29] The reviewer Edna Gundersen, writing in USA Today, noted, "Hers is flowery and sensitive. His is wry and absurd."^[30]

Jewel's second studio album, which she titled Spirit, was released on November 17, 1998.^[31] The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 368,000 copies sold in its first week. It eventually sold 3.7 million units in the United States.^[32] Its lead single, "Hands," peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Other singles followed, including a new version of "Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)," "What's Simple Is True," which she meant to be the theme song to her upcoming movie, and the charity single "Life Uncommon."^[33] Shortly after the release of Spirit, Jewel made her acting debut playing the character Sue Lee Shelley in Ang Lee's Western film Ride with the Devil (1999), opposite Tobey Maguire. The film received mixed-positive reviews,^[34] though critic Roger Ebert praised her performance, writing: "Jewel deserves praise for, quite simply, performing her character in a convincing and unmannered way. She is an actress here, not a pop star trying out a new hobby."^[35]

In November 1999, Jewel released A Holiday Collection. The album sold over a million copies and peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard 200. She released a cover of "Joy to the World" from the album as a single.^[36] In 2000, she completed an autobiography titled Chasing Down the Dawn, a collection of diary entries and musings detailing her life growing up in Alaska, her struggle to learn her craft, and life on the road.^[37] In November 2001, her fourth studio album, This Way, was released. The album peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 1.5 million copies in the U.S. A song from the album "Standing Still" hit the Top 30. Other singles released were "Break Me," "This Way," and "Serve the Ego;" this last gave Jewel her first number one club hit.^[38]

2003–2006: 0304 and Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

In June 2003, Jewel released her fifth studio album, titled 0304.^[44] The album was promoted by its lead single, "Intuition," which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[39] Within two months of its release, the album had sold over 350,000 in the United States.^[46] The shift in musical style on 0304 was noted by several critics, with People deeming it "an extreme musical makeover."^[40] In response, Jewel commented that she had been inspired to make a more upbeat-sounding record in light of the Iraq War: "I knew we were headed to war [at the time]... The music that has always done well during wartime has always been music that makes you want to escape."^[46] In his review of the album, Alexis Petridis of The Guardian awarded it two out of five stars, writing: "It's difficult to decide whether Kilcher's new image is a 180-degree career shift or simply a particularly elaborate attempt to get into Private Eye{{'}}s Warballs column. Either way, it's the most dramatic image overhaul you're ever likely to see, unless Holly Valance decides to start taking the stage in a donkey jacket and Doc Martens and covering The Pop Group's "For How Much Longer Will We Tolerate Mass Murder?""^[41]

On May 2, 2006, Jewel released her sixth studio album, Goodbye Alice in Wonderland. The album received mixed reviews, but still managed to debut at No. 8 on the Billboard Albums Chart and sold 82,000 copies in its first week.^[42] The lead single "Again and Again" had success on Adult Top 40 Radio, peaking at No. 16.^[43] The second single "Good Day" was released to radio in late June and peaked at No. 30 on the Adult Pop Songs charts. In the album's liner notes, Jewel addressed her audience in a personal letter, writing: "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland is the story of my life and is the most autobiographical album I have made since Pieces of You... By the end of the 13th song, if you have listened closely, you will have heard the story of the sirens song that seduced me, of a path I both followed and led, of bizarre twists and turns that opened my eyes, forcing me to find solutions so that discovering the truth would not lead to a loss of hope."^[44]

CMT music critic Timothy Duggan praised the Goodbye Alice in Wonderland, writing: "This album showcases Jewel's unique talent as a lyricist, alongside a definite growth in her musicianship. It is what Pieces of You might have been had Jewel had the musical knowledge then that she has now. A very satisfying work, all in all."^[45] Rolling Stone, however, called the album "overdone and undercooked" with a rating of 2 stars out of 5.^[46] To promote the album, a music video for "Stephenville, TX", Jewel's next single, was shown on Yahoo! Launch.^[47] After a photo shoot at her Texas ranch, Jewel spontaneously decided to have photographer Kurt Markus shoot the music video for the song "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland". According to an Atlantic Records press release, "The homegrown clip beautifully reflects both the song's organic, intimate sound and its powerfully autobiographical story."^[48]

2007–2008: Label shift and Perfectly Clear

Jewel released a video for "Quest for Love", the lead single from the movie Arthur and the Invisibles, recorded in 2006; the song is only available on the soundtrack for the film, which was released in January 2007.^[49] In early February 2007 Jewel recorded a duet with Jason Michael Carroll, "No Good in Goodbye", that was featured on Carroll's debut CD, Waitin' in the Country. She also made a promotional appearance on the T in Boston for the Verizon Yellow Pages, playing songs on a moving subway car and then doing an hour-long acoustic concert in South Station.

In a 2007 interview with The Boston Globe, Jewel stated that she was no longer affiliated with a record label, confirming rumors that Atlantic Records had failed to renew her contract after the lackluster sales of her then-latest album. She also hinted that she would like to do a country album next.^[50] She worked with John Rich of Big & Rich fame, who said that she was "probably one of the greatest American singer-songwriters we have had." He also said that "every label in Nashville" was talking to her at the time.^[51]

In November 2007, Jewel was signed to Valory Records, a newly formed division of the independent Big Machine Records label.^[52] Her first country album, Perfectly Clear, was released on June 3, 2008, selling 48,000 units in its first week. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album Chart and No. 8 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.^[53] In its second week on the charts, the album dropped to No. 25 on the Billboard 200 and No. 5 on the Country Albums chart, with estimated second week sales of 75,000 units.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} Jewel made her second film appearance in a cameo, appearing as herself in the comedy film Walk Hard, released in December 2007.^[54]

Approximately a month later, "Stronger Woman", the lead single from Perfectly Clear, was released to country radio on January 17, 2008, and entered the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. On April 26, 2008, it peaked at No. 13. The next single, "I Do", was released to radio on June 23, 2008. The video for the single featured her cowboy then-husband, Ty Murray. This song peaked at No. 28. Following it was "'Til It Feels Like Cheating", which peaked at No. 57.^[55] Perfectly Clear was released in Australia in late May 2009. It was then released across Europe by Humphead Records in June 2009.

2009–2013: Lullaby and other releases

In early 2009 it was announced that Jewel would release a new studio album titled Lullaby, a collection of lullabies which she described as "not just for children, but also adults". Its lead single, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", was released on iTunes on March 17, 2009. The album was released on May 5, 2009. "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" was No. 1 on The Top Children's Songs the week of release. Like 2011's The Merry Goes 'Round, it is sold under the Fisher Price brand^[56] which Jewel described as "a great partnership".^[57]

She also recorded the "Make It Last" with R&B singer Tyrese in conjunction with the release of his comic book Mayhem!. It was intended to be used for the soundtrack to Revenge of the Fallen but did not appear on the final track listing.^[58]

In January 2010 Jewel released "Stay Here Forever" from the soundtrack to the film Valentine's Day. It also served as the lead-off single to Jewel's ninth studio album Sweet and Wild released on June 8, 2010.^[59] The single debuted at No. 48 on the Hot Country Songs chart and reached No. 34 in May 2010. "Satisfied" was released as the album's second single on May 17, 2010, reaching its highest peak of No. 57. On October 10, 2010, Jewel released the third single from Sweet and Wild, "Ten". It made its debut on the Hot Country Songs Chart at No. 55 on the week of October 15, 2010, and peaked at No. 51 two weeks later.

Jewel's second children's album, The Merry Goes 'Round, was released in August 2011.^[60] Like 2009's Lullaby, it is sold under the Fisher-Price brand.^[61]

In June 2012, Jewel was cast in the lead role as June Carter Cash in the Lifetime original movie Ring of Fire, opposite Matt Ross.^[62] Brian Lowry of Variety commended Jewel's live singing in the film, and noted: "Jewel and Ross are convincing as the central couple, playing them over an extended span."^[63] On October 16, 2012, Jewel announced via Twitter a "Greatest Hits" album would be released in 2013.^[64] The album features new duets from Kelly Clarkson and the Pistol Annies. Jewel and Clarkson recorded a fresh rendition of Jewel's song "Foolish Games" while Jewel and the Pistol Annies recut "You Were Meant for Me".^[65] The Greatest Hits album was released February 5, 2013.

On August 6, 2013, Jewel announced the release of her second Christmas album, titled A Holiday Collection, scheduled for release on November 12, 2013. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Jewel was quoted as saying "I wanted this record to have a resemblance to the first album. It's a continuation of mood and spirit of that record, with the mood and feel of the album artwork with an image and tone that evokes that spirit."^[66]

2014–present: Picking Up the Pieces and Never Broken

In February 2014, Jewel began work on her next album and confirmed that it will not be released by a major record label, and that she was producing it herself.^[67] In April 2015, she appeared as a guest musician on Blues Traveler's album Blow Up the Moon, co-writing the song "Hearts Still Awake."^[68] On June 28, she revealed in a Q&A on Facebook that her upcoming album would be released in the second week of September of that year, and would feature a folk sound recorded with a live band. On July 21, Jewel confirmed the title as Picking Up the Pieces.^[69] Picking Up the Pieces was released on September 11, 2015. Four days later, on September 15, she released her third book, a new memoir entitled Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story.^[3]

Jewel recently founded Jewel Inc., which is a platform for all of her passions and work in music, tv, film and entrepreneurial endeavors. Jewel is creating human development, education and mindfulness tools for individuals by collaborating with school districts, corporations and consumers, in hopes of helping more people to become WHOLE HUMANS. To this end she is partnering with one of the worlds most innovative companies (Zappos)  and entrepreneurs (Tony Hsieh) to help deliver happiness into people's every day lives, at work and at home. This business will offer organizations a digital curriculum to help them enter the next frontier of corporate culture; making meaningful investments in their human capital.

She is also partnering with parenting and education experts to create curriculum for public schools, as well as cutting edge youth development programs. The content emphasizes mindfulness and emotional intelligence to give every-day-people a "psychology for life," so they can do what she has done - be the architects of their own life, rather than a passenger in a life they’ve inherited.

Through Jewel Inc., Jewel's Never Broken Foundation and program, she has partnered with Ryan Wolfington and the Inspiring Children Foundation (www.InspiringChildren.net) to make mindfulness and emotional intelligence tools available to the masses.

In 2018 Jewel partnered with Trevor Drinkwater to bring wellness to the masses by Co-creating the Wellness Your Way, Music and Wellness Festival, presented by Kroger, in Cincinnat, Ohio.

In 2017, she returned to acting, appearing in two television mystery films on the Hallmark Channel: Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery, and Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery, both in which she plays the character Shannon Hughes, a contractor and investigator.^[70][71][72]

Artistry

Jewel is a soprano.^[73] Caitlin Gibson of The Washington Post described Jewel's vocal versatility, stating that "she can summon many voices — deep and powerful, girlish and sweet, piercing and agile." Gibson also commented about Jewel's debut; "In an era still gripped by grunge, [she] climbed to the top of the pop charts with sweet, simple folk tunes".^[1] Her fifth studio album 0304 (2003) was a departure from her previous folk rock-oriented albums and incorporates a more general pop sound. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote about 0304, describing it as "A record that (is) lyric-driven, like Cole Porter stuff, that also has a lot of swing... that combined dance, urban, and folk music. [...] [it is] an original-sounding album, something with more imagination than the average dance-pop record. Better still, it sounds more authentic (and boasts a better set of songs) than her previous records, which were either too ramshackle or too self-serious and doggedly somber to really reveal much character."^[74] Perfectly Clear (2008) was influenced by her appreciation for country music, while Picking Up The Pieces (2015) saw Jewel "going back to [her] folk/American roots that [she] began with."^[75]

Owning a wide variety of Taylor Guitars, Jewel uses a Taylor 912-C most often.^[76] Acoustic Guitar writer Jeffery Pepper Rodgers called the guitar her "steady companion".^[76] All of her guitars are strung with D'Addario products.^[76] To strum, she employs a unique self-created fingerpicking technique or a hard pick.^[76]

Philanthropy

Jewel formed a nonprofit organization called Higher Ground for Humanity with her mother, Lenedra J. Carroll, and her older brother, Shane Kilcher. The organization's focus is education, sustainable improvements, and building alliances with like-minded organizations.^[77] Jewel donates a portion of her income to the organization and often holds events to benefit the organization.^[78] The organization tends to parallel Jewel's career since she provides the majority of the organization's funding. {{As of|2005}}, the activities of the organization were concluded.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} One early grantee was the Global Youth Action Network, which has become one of the largest youth movements around the United Nations.

In September 2006, as part of Lifetime's "Stop Breast Cancer for Life" campaign, Jewel delivered more than 12 million petition signatures to Capitol Hill, urging Congress to pass the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2005 (S 910/HR1849).^[79] The bill would ban the practice of "drive-through" mastectomies, when women are discharged from the hospital just hours after their surgeries.

Jewel served as the honorary chairperson of the 2006 Help the Homeless Walk in Washington, D.C.^[80]

In November 2008, Jewel began work on a project with several dozen singer-songwriters to write and auction their lyrics with donations benefiting her "Project Clean Water" charity.^[81] Many singers and songwriters besides herself have donated their written lyrics including Patrick Davis, Alabama's Randy Owen, John Mellencamp, Jason Mraz, Gretchen Wilson, and Marv Green. The majority of the lyrics were written on paper and signed by the songwriter, with the exception of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl". Many of the artists in addition to writing and signing lyrics, drew pictures to illustrate their lyrics.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} The auction ran from December 1, 2008, to December 18, 2008, promoted by CMT and Virgin Music.^[82] Some of the lyrics that were up for auction included hits such as "So Small", "Foolish Games", "I'm Yours", "I Kissed a Girl", "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)", "Live Like You Were Dying", "I Don't Need a Man", "Superman (It's Not Easy)" and "Redneck Woman".^[83] The highest bought lyrics being Jewel's signature song "You Were Meant For Me" sold for US$1,505,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} and "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "Hands", raising more than $1,005 each.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} Jewel promised that all items sold by December 18 would be delivered by Christmas.^[84] After the majority of the auctions ended on December 18 two new lyrics by Craig Wiseman and Ernie Ashworth were put up for auction ending in January 2009.^[82]

In May 2013 Jewel served as ambassador for the ReThink: Why Housing Matters initiative. She was included in the initiative's public service announcement (PSA) which asked Americans to rethink their views on public housing and consider how it benefits people in their own communities.^[85]

From the start of Jewel’s music career she demonstrated her passion for helping people to physically survive by helping the homeless and trying to make clean water available to those in need by funding and building water wells all over the world. Most recently she partnered with the University of Oregon to build a water well in Uganda in the distressed home town of Jonah Wafula, one of the children in her Never Broken Foundation.

Jewel spent much of her career helping people to physically survive and now wants to help them emotionally and mentally thrive. Jewel is achieving this goal through her Never Broken Foundation and program in partnership with The Inspiring Children Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to help everyone make “happiness a habit” through Jewel’s free online web site www.JewelNeverBroken.com, her curriculum and grass roots community programming.

Jewel’s grass roots program helps at risk youth to remember they are “Never Broken,” giving them tools to become whole humans. These tools include mindfulness, emotional intelligence, mentoring, project driven learning, counseling, tennis, nutrition, and a positive social life with a safe environment that inspires vulnerability, open and meaningful conversations. The program includes transition homes for those families and children in need. The program supports youth from all socio-economic backgrounds.

Jewel's curriculum offers children the same tools jewel used to go from homelessness to happiness. The tools help children go deeper into the subjects of life, so they can develop all aspects of themselves to become whole humans. This includes jewel's "Paying attention, gratitude, and retrain your brain" online exercises. These are curated mindfulness practices that jewel and the Foundation have been using for decades to create positive change, including the popular “10 second meditation,” for beginners and advanced practitioners.

Through www.JewelNeverBroken.com and her showcase program in Las Vegas, she shares the mindfulness tools she developed to convert her pain into resilience. For this foray, she teamed up with Dr. Judson Brewer of Yale University, University of Massachusetts, and Brown University, to offer this information to the public in a free interactive website.

The web site is run by the foundation youth as part of the foundation's Project Driven Learning Program (PDL) where children learn one of 50 skills, including journalism, video production, event management, marketing and promotion. This program breaks entitlement by giving children the opportunity to earn their way and build their skills through real life projects project that are tied to giving back to others. This is designed to build confidence from self-sufficiency and right choices.

RESULTS

The foundation considers it’s biggest accomplishment to be inspiring children to fall in love with life, learning, and creating their own happiness and success by making right choices.

The Foundation tools have reached 40,000 people online at the showcase grass roots program in Las Vegas.

95% of the children who complete the full-time leadership program have gone onto to be so skilled and accomplished in academics and athletics that they earned and were given college scholarships from prestigious universities such as: Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Georgetown, Harvard, Brown, University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School of Business, Vanderbilt, United States Air Force, The Citadel, Villanova, Williams College, Vassar and many others. The Foundation prides itself on inspiring under-served youth to become high-level, hard-working, aware and kind hearted leaders.

The Foundation program has become an incubator for excellence in youth development and education, that is a model being showcased for other non- profits, educators and researchers to duplicate and scale. The program in its entirety and in parts, is being duplicated by 22 organizations nationwide.

The program is a pioneer and leader in the realms of youth development, mindfulness, emotional quotient, mentoring, project drive learning, high performance sports psychology, tennis, entrepreneurial competitions and programming.

Personal life

Jewel was in a relationship with actor Sean Penn in 1995 after he spotted her performing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He invited her to compose a song for his film The Crossing Guard and followed her on tour.^[86]

She married pro rodeo cowboy Ty Murray on August 7, 2008, in the Bahamas after 10 years together.^[101] Their son, Kase Townes Murray, was born on July 11, 2011.^[87] On July 2, 2014, after nearly 6 years of marriage, Jewel announced on her website that she and Murray were divorcing.^[88]

Jewel is the daughter of Atz Kilcher, who stars in the Discovery Channel show The Last Frontier.^[89] All three of her brothers live in Alaska.^[90]

Her cousin is actress Q'orianka Kilcher who is best known for her role as Pocahontas opposite Colin Farrell and Christian Bale in director Terrence Malick's Academy Award-nominated motion picture The New World (2005).^[91]

Jewel has been estranged from her mother (who also served as her business manager) since 2003; the singer has accused her mother of stealing millions of dollars from her.^[92]

Jewel identifies as a feminist and has said: "I don't think I started off young as a feminist. I read a lot of books in Alaska, I was pretty isolated where I grew up, and I think that I never thought I was any different than a man; I was raised in a place where pioneer women were very strong still. They'd shoe horses and build their own homes and were very self-sufficient. It wasn't really until I've gotten older that I really became a fan of women. And a fan of what women are capable of balancing and achieving, by just being them."^[93]

Accolades

Discography

Studio albums

• Pieces of You (1995)
• Spirit (1998)
• A Holiday Collection (1999)
• This Way (2001)
• 0304 (2003)
• Goodbye Alice in Wonderland (2006)
• Perfectly Clear (2008)
• Lullaby (2009)
• Sweet and Wild (2010)
• The Merry Goes 'Round (2011)
• A Holiday Collection (2013)
• Picking Up the Pieces (2015)

Videos

• Jewel: A Life Uncommon (1999) – An intimate documentary on DVD featuring live performances and candid interviews.
• Live at Humphrey's By The Bay (2004) – Filmed during two sold-out performances at the San Diego venue. Bonus features include interviews, live footage from her This Way Tour, and a photo gallery.
• Jewel: The Essential Live Songbook (2008) – This home video combines two concerts that were broadcast in 2007 for the television program Soundstage (at the Rialto Theatre including some numbers with orchestra, and the Meyerson Symphony Center); and four songs from Red Rocks. Bonus features are an interview and music video. The concerts are also available separately for streaming.

Filmography

Tours

• 1997: Tiny Lights Tour^[101]
• 1997: Papillion Tour^[102]
• 1999: Spirit World Tour^[103]
• 2002: This Way World Tour^[104]
• 2002: New Wild West Acoustic Tour^[105]
• 2003-04: 0304 Acoustic Tour^[106]
• 2005: Tour For No Reason
• 2008: Goodbye Alice In Wonderland Tour
• 2009: Perfectly Clear Acoustic Tour^[107]
• 2009: Lullaby Acoustic Tour^[108]
• 2010: Star Light Café Tour^[109]
• 2013: Greatest Hits Tour^[110]
• 2016: Picking Up the Pieces Tour^[111]
• 2017, 2018: Handmade Holiday Tour^[112][113]

• 1997, 1998: Lilith Fair {{small|(with various artists)}}^[114]

• 2006: Something to Be Tour {{small|(for Rob Thomas)}}^[115]
• 2008: Paisley Party Tour {{small|(for Brad Paisley)}}^[116]

• 2003: 0304 World Tour^[117]

Publications

• A Night Without Armor (1998)^[118]
• Chasing Down the Dawn (2000)^[119]
• Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story (2015)^[120]

References

Works cited

• {{cite book|last=Atkinson|first=Brian T.|title=I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt|year=2011|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-603-44526-9|ref=harv}}
• {{cite book|last=DeMain|first=Bill|title=In Their Own Words: Songwriters Talk about the Creative Process|year=2004|publisher=Prager|isbn=978-0-275-98402-1|ref=harv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PxdYxdVC9oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=In+Their+Own+Words:+Songwriters+Talk+about+the+Creative+Process&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUxJTty5HTAhWDKyYKHVLhBqcQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=In%20Their%20Own%20Words%3A%20Songwriters%20Talk%20about%20the%20Creative%20Process&f=false}}
• {{cite book|last=Kilcher|first=Jewel|title=Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story|publisher=Penguin|year=2016|ref=harv|isbn=978-0-399-18572-4}}
• {{cite book|last=McFarland|first=P.J.|year=1998|title=Angel Standing By: The Story of Jewel|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=978-0-312-19827-5|ref=harv}}

Further reading

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External links

• {{Official website}}
• {{DMOZ|Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/J/Jewel/|Jewel}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060623104803/http://www.atlanticrecords.com/jewel/ Jewel's Atlantic Records page]
• {{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p22611|label=Jewel}}
• {{IMDb name|0452962}}

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