Unair Library – What do you think if you heard “JEWEL”? For me, that thing is so special, looks like a diamond, and is priceless or precious in an engagement ceremony, but here we are going to talk about Jewel, one of the American musicians. Based on the Wikipedia website, she was born on 23 May 1974 in Payson, Utah, USA. Despite her activity in music, she is also active in motion pictures. You can check her performance on Clueless (1995), Ride with the Devil (1999), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), and also the documentary film Lost in America in 2017.
As an awesome singer, she has sold her over 30 million of her album worldwide. And here we have a short story about Jewel. She has her own website, which you can visit on Jewel (jeweljk.com), on that web, she publishes the latest album and also other features such as news, music, video, etc. When childhood, she grew up in Homer, Alaska, and she liked singing and yodeling as a due with her father, a local musician.
While fifteen years old, she accepted a partial scholarship at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan where she learned operatic voice. Encyclopedia dot com also wrote at that age, she had a solo performance for Tom Bodet’s “End of the Road” show, in that moment, she was playing guitar and writing songs during her senior year of high school; performed in coffee houses around the San Diego area after high school; signed to Atlantic Records in March of 1994; released Pieces of You in 1995; performed on the Lilith Fair tour in July of 1997; “You Were Meant for Me” set record for longest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 1997.
Back to her album Jewel Greatest hits, released on February 2013 and has 15 songs including a duet with Kelly Clarkson and Pistol Annies. You can listen to this album individually in our area although streaming with your account on Spotify or the other music platform.