Jewel (singer)

Jewel Kilcher (Payson (Utah), 23 May 1974) is an American singer-songwriter and writer. She acts as Jewel.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === Jewels father, Atz Kilcher, was a German-speaking immigrant from Switzerland and her mother, Lenedra Carroll, was Irish, who moved to the United States . The she spent most of her childhood in Homer with her father. Sometimes she earned money by singing with her father in bars and taverns. They also learned to YODEL, a in her songs. Her father was a Mormon, but they kept on with going to church shortly before her eighth birthday. [source?]
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Career
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000

She learned guitar play over a fair at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. Since its seventeenth she writes songs. A time long lived Jewel in poverty, she traveled around the country in a van and she performed in small clubs and on the street. [source?] ===Career[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jewel in 1995 signed a contract with Atlantic Records and began her singing career. That same year she recorded her debut album Pieces of You came her first single from the album on. Who Will Save Your Soul, with which they broke through in the us. Of the single Foolish Games were more than fourteen million copies sold worldwide. In the us this was the best selling debut album ever. She was nominated for several awards, of which they won there number of. A collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor, in which some lyrics are included.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1998 appeared Jewels second album, Spirit. On the first single Hands she worked with writer and producer Patrick Leonard, one of the permanent cooperation partners of Madonna. Hands was a hit and the Christmas version gets airplay in december each year.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1999 Jewel plays Sue Lee in the role of "Ride With the Devil" by Ang Lee.

<p lang="en" len="299" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After a year break appears in 2000 Jewels third album, This Way, of which the single standing Still is a modest hit.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2003, she recorded an album that is different from its previous, understated albums. It's called 0304 and she works out together with Lester Mendez ( Shakiraknown for a.o.). Intuition the first single came out in the summer of 2003. To see dancing in the clip is a Jewel with a sensual look. In contrast to her folk music background is this album in the pop/dance-genre. In the United States are from this album 900,000 CDs sold worldwide, 2.4 million.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jewel brings in 2006 the album Goodbye Alice In Wonderland , from which the first single is called Again and Again . With this album she partly back to the sound of her first three albums. She herself calls the album "the most autobiographical since Pieces of You." This cd sold up to 2008 only half a million copies, making it the worst-selling cd by Jewel.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2008 a new album, Perfectly Clear. The first single of this is called Stronger woman and can be downloaded via the US Itunes. In 2008 she performs with this new song on in America at the great morning shows. The album has many countryinfluences and scores thereby above all in America at the radio stations who focus on that type of music.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jewel is married since 7 August 2008 with Ty Murray.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  they had a son, Kase Townes in 2011. On 2 July 2014 Jewel announced her divorce with Ty through its website<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2], after almost 6 years of marriage. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===