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Homer, Alaska, USA
Jewel Kilcher, professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received four Grammy Award nominations and has sold over 27 million albums worldwide. Jewel debuted on February 28, 1995, with the album, Pieces of You, which became one of the best selling debut albums of all time, going platinum 15 times. One single from the album, "Who Will…
Known for
- Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — Self2025
- The 99th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — Self - Performer2025
- American Song Contest — Self2022
- The Sherri Shepherd Show — Self - Guest2022
- Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 — Self2022
- In This Together: A Bell Let's Talk Day Special2021
- Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage — Self2021
- The Mindfulness Movement — Self2020
- Jewel - Pieces Of You Live — Herself2020
- I Can See Your Voice2020
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Key facts
- Born
- Jewel Kilcher , ( 1974-05-23 ) May 23, 1974 (age 52) , Payson, Utah , U.S.
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter poet author activist actress
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Spouse
- Ty Murray ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 )
- Father
- Atz Kilcher
- Relatives
- Yule F. Kilcher (grandfather), Mossy Kilcher (aunt), Q'orianka Kilcher (first cousin once removed)
- Origin
- Homer, Alaska , U.S.
- Genres
- Pop country folk
- Instruments
- Vocals (soprano) guitar
- Labels
- Atlantic Valory
- Website
- jeweljk .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Payson
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Atlantic Records
- Official website
- jeweljk.com
- Image
- Jewel at Clinton's inauguration party.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Telluride
- Voice type
- soprano
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- date of birth
- 1974-05-23
- Commons category
- Jewel (singer)
- topic's main category
- Category:Jewel (singer)
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- social media followers
- 286000
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Jewel Kilcher
- name in native language
- Jewel
Sources (11)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Jewel, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter. She has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide as of 2024.
Jewel was raised near Homer, Alaska, where she grew up singing and yodeling as a musical duo with her father, Atz Kilcher, a local musician. At age fifteen, she received a partial scholarship to 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 signed by Atlantic Records in 1993, which released her debut album Pieces of You two years later. One of the best-selling debut albums of all time, it went 12-times platinum. The debut single from the album, "Who Will Save Your Soul", peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Singles "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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jewel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.