photo by Kurt Markus
Grammy award-winning singer, Jewel, at Bookends Friday
September 22,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Grammy award-winning singer, Jewel, was at Bookends in Ridgewood on Friday to meet fans and sign copies of her new book “That’s What I’d Do.”
Jewel or Jewel Kilcher was born May 23, 1974, is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet. She has received four Grammy Award nominations and has sold over 27 million albums worldwide.
Jewel was born in Payson, Utah. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Homer, Alaska. Jewel learned to play the guitar while at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where she majored in operatic voice. She started writing songs as early as the age of 16. and got her start plying in front of a live audience at Ray’s Coffee House in Traverse City, Michigan.
For some time Jewel lived the “starving artist lifesty” money was tight so she lived in her van and traveling around the country doing street performances and small gigs.She gained some recognition by singing at the Innerchange Coffeehouse and Java Joe’s in San Diego, California .
Jewel was discovered by Inga Vainshtein in August 1994, in San Diego . She cut her debut album, Pieces of You, in 1995 when she was 21. It was recorded in a studio on Neil Young’s ranch, and was backed by his band.
At her peak Jewel was chosen to sing the American national anthem at the opening of the Super Bowl XXXII in January 1998 in San Diego. She was introduced as “San Diego’s own Jewel!”
sourced form : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_(singer) and https://www.jeweljk.com/
