Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974) is a singer-songwriter, actress, and author from the United States. She has four Grammy Award nominations and has sold over 30 million albums globally as of 2021.
Jewel grew up near Homer, Alaska, singing and yodeling in a pair with her father, local artist Atz Kilcher. She obtained a partial scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan when she was fifteen, where she studied operatic voice. She began writing and performing at bars and coffeehouses in San Diego, California, after graduation.
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Jewel has a $14 million net worth as an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and poet. Jewel Kilcher’s rags-to-riches story has been repeated many times. She was accepted to the elite Interlochen Arts Academy after growing up in the Alaskan bush with no indoor plumbing and learning to play the guitar.
She then began performing and singing at coffee shops and street festivals while traveling and living in her van. She began to acquire a following while performing at a coffee shop in San Diego on Thursday nights, and after an Atlantic Records executive heard her in the summer of 1994, her entire career transformed.
She has 12 studio albums to her credit, which have sold over 30 million copies and earned her more than 20 honors. Jewel has also acted in films and television shows such as “Ride with the Devil” (1999), “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” (2007), and “Ring of Fire” (2013), and she was a judge on “Nashville Star” from 2007 to 2008.
Jewel is a published novelist whose works include “A Night Without Armour” (1998), “Chasing Down the Dawn” (2000), and “Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story” (2015).
