Jewel was born Jewel Kilcher in Utah, but was raised from infancy on a remote homestead in Alaska. As she recounts, both of her parents were musicians with whom she performed at hotel dinner shows from the age of 5 until her mother left the family when Jewel was just 8. At that point she became a duo with her father, often performing at bars where she would steal the show with her yodeling.
It was around that time that, at the urging of an acquaintance, Jewel applied for and received a partial scholarship to a private music school in Michigan; members of the community who believed in her potential kicked in the rest of the tuition, and she headed off to study, ultimately overcoming dyslexia and panic attacks to learn how to play the guitar and write her own poetry-turned-tunes.
"Things got progressively worse," she recalls, noting that she became agoraphobic, started suffering from life-threatening kidney infections and began habitually stealing. Then, one day while about to snatch a dress from a store, Jewel had an epiphany: "I remembered this quote that I had read by Buddha that said, 'Happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends on what you think.
Jewel started writing music, and the rest, of course, is history. She landed a gig at the Inner Change Coffeehouse in Pacific Beach, and quickly found a following. Record label execs started driving up from Los Angeles, and there was a bidding war for her services. Jewel signed with Atlantic Records, refusing upfront money for the biggest backend deal in the label's history. She assembled 14 of her songs for— including "the first song I ever wrote," "Who Will Save Your Soul.
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