Spirit is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jewelreleased in by Atlantic Records. In addition, a one-track CD containing a live version of «Life Uncommon» was released to music stores in hopes to raise money and awareness frim Habitat for Humanity. Spirit debuted at number 3 on the Billboard withmoeny sold in its first week. It eventually sold 3. Kilcher began writing material for Spirit after the release of Pieces of You in In a interview, she divulged that the song «Fat Boy» was written about a boy she grew up with who committed suicide kilxher her family’s property in Alaska : «There was a note [he left] that said some thing along the lines of, ‘Nobody will love me. David Browne of Entertainment Weekly wrote of the album: «With her dulcet voice and lulling refrains, Jewel makes the social and political ills of the world go down easy. But in doing so, she unintentionally confounds the problem, since her honeyed background-music folk die issues of life and death appear more benign and less worrisome than they are.
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Jewel is a singer-songwriter, actress, author, mother and advocate. She went from a girl who grew up in Alaska with no running water, to a homeless teenager in San Diego, to an award winning, Multi-Platinum Recording Artist who released one of the best-selling debuts of all times. Through her career, which has spanned over 20 years, she has earned multiple Grammy Award nominations, an American Music Award and an MTV Video Music Award among many others and to date has sold well in excess of 30 million albums worldwide. Jewel’s distinct story began on an Alaskan homestead when she started singing in bars at eight years old. She left home at fifteen and provided for herself until the age of sixteen when she received a partial scholarship to Interlochen Fine Arts Academy, which is where she began writing songs documenting her inner journey and the world she saw around her with lyrics that were considered artful and profound. At age nineteen, after being discovered singing in a San Diego coffee shop, Jewel found herself in a bidding war between record companies wanting to sign her. Rather than take the largest advance, she bet on herself, making an aggressive back-end deal, which at that time was unheard of for an undiscovered artist. Jewel credits her great mentors Bob Dylan, and Neil Young who took the time to groom and encourage her as a young artist. Jewel’s debut album Pieces of You was released in , recorded in a studio on Neil Young’s ranch, and included Young’s backing band, The Stray Gators. She has one of the most God-given voices I have ever heard an artist be given» states Rolling Stone. In , Jewel returned with the platinum certified album, This Way.
Jewel Kilcher born May 23, , [2] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actress, author, and poet. She has received four Grammy Award nominations and, as of , has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Jewel 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 ; it went on to become one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, going times platinum. The debut single from the album, » Who Will Save Your Soul «, peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot ; two others, » You Were Meant for Me » and » Foolish Games «, reached number two on the Hot , and were listed on Billboard ‘s year-end singles chart , as well as Billboard ‘ s year-end singles chart. Her subsequent album, Spirit , was released in , followed by This Way In , she released , which marked a departure from her previous folk-oriented records, featuring electronic arrangements and elements of dance-pop. Jewel released her first independent album, Lullaby , in
Jewel is the granddaughter of Ruth, an aspiring opera singer who left pre-war Germany, got on a ship headed to Alaska to marry Yule Kilcher because she felt her future children must be born somewhere free. Ruth taught all her 8 children to sing and play instruments. Jewel and her father, Atz Kilcher, became a duo when Jewel was 8. He trained her well and she practiced for hours a day to sing good harmony and learn his songs. He stressed punctuality and being professional. When she was 15, she moved out on her own to a cabin not far from her dad’s. It had one room and no water, no plumbing, and she worked several jobs. She rode a horse 12 miles into town for work and left her horse at her aunt’s place then hitch-hiked the rest of the way. At 15, she applied to a fine arts school in Michigan and was accepted on a partial scholarship. She raised the rest of the money by doing her first solo show ever at the local high school in the auditorium. After her graduation, Jewel drifted. She kept writing songs, and started singing in a local coffee shop and developed a loyal following. Soon, there was a bidding war between several labels for Jewel, and she went with the label that didn’t want her to change and let her be a simple songwriter. Jewel says that her life «has exceeded any expectation I ever held for myself. I never thought a storyteller in today’s day and age would be able to go so far. Live Now.
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Sometimes she earned money by singing with her father in bars and taverns. 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. Who Will Save Mame Soulwith which they broke through in the us. In the us this was the best selling debut album .
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