Jewel (singer)

Jewel Kilcher (2016)

Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974 in Payson , Utah ), better known by her first name Jewel , is an American singer and actress who has sold more than 30 million records . She writes her own songs. You can find love songs as well as critical engagement with US society .

biography

Jewel is a granddaughter of the Swiss-American farmer and politician Yule Kilcher . She grew up in Alaska , where she began at an early age to accompany her parents to performances in Eskimo villages. After her parents divorced, she stayed with her father and continued to accompany him during performances. Seven years later she moved to Michigan and studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy . During this period she also began to write her first songs. After graduation, she moved to live with her mother in San Diego and did some part-time jobs. She was discovered by Atlantic Records while performing in a coffee shop . Jewel's father is of German-Swiss descent, her mother has Irish roots. Jewel himself has both US and Swiss citizenship. She is also a second aunt of actress Q'orianka Kilcher .

On August 7, 2008, Jewel married the US rodeo star Ty Murray , with whom she had been in a relationship for ten years, in the Bahamas. The two live together on a 890 acre farm in Stephenville, Texas. In 2011, Jewel gave birth to a son. It is the couple's first child. In February 2014, the couple announced their split.

Stylistic features of their music

Their opening albums often contain songs that have been produced with little effort (sometimes only with guitar accompaniment ).

She broke with this tradition on her 2003 album 03 04 . There is a dance video on the CD and she experiments with different musical styles ( dance , classical folk , jazz , beat , pop , techno , soul ), which was received negatively by some of the fans. Nevertheless, 03 04 reached number 2 on the US charts. On the album Goodbye Alice in Wonderland , released in 2006 , Jewel returned to her musical roots.

Trivia

• She founded and finances the non-profit organization Higher Ground for Humanity , which works to improve the water supply in developing countries.
• In 1998 she published a volume of poetry A Night Without Armor (500,000 copies sold) and her autobiography Chasing Down the Dawn (subtitled Stories from the Road ) in 2000 .

Some text passages from their songs

• The song Pieces of You raises the question of whether the ugly, bad or different that you see in other people is not also a part of yourself:

“She's an ugly girl, is that why you want to kill her? It is not a threat. Do you hate it because it is part of you? "

“You say he's gay . Is that why you want to hurt him? Are you afraid that you are one of them too? Do you hate him because he is part of you? "

• You can find religious aspects in her songs , for example in the song who will save your soul ( who will save your soul ).

“Who will save your soul after all the lies you've told? We are so concerned about saving our souls that we forget to start ”.

• A success that is also known in Europe is intuition . She gives the following advice in this song:

"Follow your heart, your intuition, it will lead you in the right direction" - follow your heart, your intuition, it will lead you in the right direction . It is their answer to the complications of everyday life today.

Acting career

In 1999 her breakthrough began as an actress in Ang Lee's film Who Rides With the Devil , alongside film stars Skeet Ulrich and Tobey Maguire . In 2004 she was working on her second film, Wave . She made a guest appearance on Men in Trees and played live with her band on the Las Vegas series .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Pieces of You	DE19 (20 weeks) DE	AT30 (3 weeks) AT	-	UK82 gold (6 weeks)UK	US4th × 2 Diamond + double platinum (114 weeks)US	First published: February 28, 1995
1998	Spirit	DE42 (10 weeks) DE	AT48 (3 weeks) AT	CH32 (7 weeks) CH	UK54 silver (2 weeks)UK	US3 × 4 Quadruple platinum (51 weeks)US	First published: November 17, 1998
2001	This way	DE13 (15 weeks) DE	AT35 (6 weeks) AT	CH14 (13 weeks) CH	UK34 (3 weeks) UK	US9 platinum (33 weeks)US	First published: November 13, 2001
2003	0304	DE33 (3 weeks) DE	AT74 (1 week) AT	CH45 (5 weeks) CH	UK79 (1 week) UK	US2 gold (21 weeks)US	First published: June 3, 2003
2006	Goodbye Alice in Wonderland	-	-	CH34 (7 weeks) CH	-	US8 (13 weeks) US	First published: May 2, 2006
2008	Perfectly Clear	-	-	-	-	US8 (16 weeks) US	First published: June 3, 2008
2010	Sweet and Wild	-	-	-	-	US11 (11 weeks) US	First published: June 8, 2010
2015	Picking up the pieces	-	-	-	-	US28 (3 weeks) US	First published: September 11, 2015

More albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1999	Joy: A Holiday Collection	-	-	-	-	US32 platinum (9 weeks)US	First release: November 2nd, 1999 Christmas album
2009	Lullaby	-	-	-	-	US117 (1 week) US	First release: May 5th, 2009 Children's album
2013	Greatest hits	-	-	-	-	US73 (2 weeks) US	First published: February 5, 2013 compilation
	Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection	-	-	-	-	US43 (2 weeks) US	First release: September 24, 2013 Christmas album

more publishments

• 2011: The Merry Goes' Round

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1996	Who Will Save Your Soul Pieces of You	-	-	-	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	US11 (30 weeks) US	First published: June 4, 1996
	You Were Meant for Me Pieces of You	-	-	-	UK32 (6 weeks) UK	US2 platinum (65 weeks)US	First published: November 12, 1996
1997	Foolish Games Pieces of You	-	-	-	-[US: ↑]		First published: July 8, 1997
1998	Hands Spirit	-	-	-	UK41 (2 weeks) UK	US6 (22 weeks) US	First published: November 1998
1999	Down So Long Spirit	-	-	-	UK38 (2 weeks) UK	US59 (6 weeks) US	First published: February 1999
2001	Standing Still This Way	-	-	-	UK83 (1 week) UK	US25 (20 weeks) US	First published: October 2, 2001
2003	Intuition 0304	DE77 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH87 (1 week) CH	UK52 (1 week) UK	US20 (20 weeks) US	First published: May 6, 2003
2006	Again and Again Goodbye Alice in Wonderland	-	-	-	-	US80 (2 weeks) US	First published: February 2006
2008	Stronger Woman Perfectly Clear	-	-	-	-	US84 (10 weeks) US	First published: February 2008

More singles

• 1999: That's the Way Love Goes (with Merle Haggard )
• 1999: Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)
• 2002: Serve the Ego
• 2002: Break Me
• 2002: This Way
• 2003: status
• 2003: 2 Become 1
• 2006: Good Day
• 2006: Only One Too
• 2008: I Thu
• 2008: Till It Feels Like Cheating
• 2010: Stay Here Forever
• 2010: Satisfied
• 2010: Ten
• 2013: Two Hearts Breaking
• 2015: Dress Blues (with Zac Brown Band )
• 2016: I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart (with Cyndi Lauper )

Video albums

• 1999: A Life Uncommon
• 2004: Live at Humphrey's by the Bay
• 2008: The Essential Live Songbook

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2004: for the album 0304 2009: for the video album The Essential Live Songbook 2011: for the album Lullaby  Netherlands 2001: for the album Spirit  Norway 1997: for the album Pieces of You  Spain 2001: for the album Pieces of You Platinum record  Canada 2003: for the album This Way  Netherlands 2001: for the album Pieces of You

8 × platinum record  Canada 1998: for the album Pieces of You

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	3 × gold3	9 × platinum9	-	995,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	120,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	20,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	-	50,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	9 × platinum9	diamond1	19,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	-	-	160,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	8 × gold8th	19 × platinum19th	diamond1

Books

• 1999: Too Many Nights: Poems (also as an audio book)
• 1999: A Night Without Armor: Poems (also as audio book)
• 2001: Chasing Down the Dawn: Stories from the Road (also as audio book)

Web links

Commons : Jewel Kilcher  - Collection of Images

• Official website (English)
• Jewel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jewel on MusicBrainz (English)
• http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_1191/jewel-kilcher/filmography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewel - Official Website :: Articles. Retrieved March 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US