Jewel, whose real name is Jewel Kilcher, is an American singer-songwriter. She was born on May 23, 1974. As of 2021, her albums have sold more than 30 million copies globally, and she has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.
Atz Kilcher was a local musician, and Jewel grew up singing and yodeling with him in a pair near Homer, Alaska. She studied operatic voice at Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Academy on a partial scholarship when she was fifteen years old. She started penning songs and playing them at San Diego cafes and nightclubs after finishing college.
Jewel Net Worth
Jewel is a multi-talented American artist with a $14 million net worth. She sings, writes songs, plays guitar, acts, and writes poetry. Many have recounted Jewel Kilcher’s rags-to-riches story. Even though she had no running water or indoor plumbing as a child, she managed to go into the elite Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where she studied singing and guitar.
She then started performing music and living in her van, performing at coffee shops and street fairs. She started to get noticed while performing Thursday nights at a San Diego coffee shop; her career took a dramatic turn in the summer of 1994 after an Atlantic Records executive heard her.
When it came out in 1995, her debut album “Pieces of You” quickly rose to the ranks of the all-time favorite albums. It stayed on the Billboard 200 for two years and sold fifteen million copies.
She has won over 20 accolades and sold over 30 million copies of her 12 studio albums. Aside from her time as a judge on “Nashville Star” from 2007 to 2008, Jewel has acted in numerous films and television shows, such as “Ride with the Devil” (1999), “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” (2007), and “Ring of Fire” (2013). “Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story” (2015), “Chasing Down the Dawn” (2000), and “A Night Without Armor” (1998) are all works by the renowned author Jewel.
Jewel Early Life
Jewel Kilcher came into this world in Payson, Utah, on May 23, 1974. Born in Anchorage, Alaska to Mormon parents Lenedra and Attila (sometimes known as Atz Kilcher), she had an older brother named Shane and a younger brother named Atz Jr. However, following Lenedra and Atz’s 1981 divorce, the family departed from their faith.
The son of Atz’s previous relationship, Jewel’s half-brother Niko, is also in the family. Following the divorce, Jewel was brought up by Atz in Homer, Alaska, in a house that lacked indoor plumbing. Occasionally, she would join her father—who had taught her yodeling—onstage at local pubs and hotels in Anchorage.
With the help of a partial scholarship, Jewel was able to attend Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studied guitar and operatic voice. After finishing college, she uprooted her life and spent her days singing in San Diego, California, cafes and bars from the comfort of her car.
Jewel Charity Work
Along with her mother and older brother, Jewel established the nonprofit organization Higher Ground for Humanity in 1999. In 2006, she was a part of Lifetime’s “Stop Breast Cancer for Life” campaign, which brought 12 million signatures in favor of the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2005 to Capitol Hill.
To support Project Clean Water, Jewel held an auction in 2008 featuring her song lyrics, and in 2006 she was made honorary chairman of the Help the Homeless Walk in Washington, D.C. Jewel starred in a public service announcement and served as an ambassador for the 2013 ReThink: Why Housing Matters program.
Jewel Private Life
When Sean Penn watched Jewel on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in 1995, he requested that she compose a song for his 1995 film “The Crossing Guard.” Jewel and Penn went on to date. She tied the knot with rodeo cowboy Ty Murray on August 7, 2008, following a decade of dating; the couple welcomed a son, Kase, on July 11, 2011. Their 2014 divorce was final.
Jewelry has made multiple appearances in the Discovery Channel series “Alaska: The Last Frontier,” which stars her father and numerous other relatives. Even though Jewel’s mom was Lenedra’s business manager in the past, the two have been separated ever since Jewel found out her mom was in debt millions of dollars due to Lenedra’s theft in 2003.
Jewel Notable Achievements
Best Acoustic in 1994, Artist of the Year in 1995 and 1996, and Album of the Year in 1995 were just a few of Jewel’s early San Diego Music Awards victories. She won three awards that year: Favorite New Artist from the American Music Awards, Top Adult Top 40 Artist from “Billboard” Music Awards, and Best Female Video from MTV (for “You Were Meant for Me”).
By 1999, Jewel had already won a number of awards, including a BMI Pop Award, a Blockbuster Entertainment Award, an Audie Award for Best Spoken Word Album (for “A Night Without Armor”), and a Governor’s Award for Songwriting. In addition to her three ASCAP Pop Music Awards (1999 and 2004), she has won a Radio Music Award (2003) and an MVPA Award (2002).
Jewel Real Estate
Their 1,781 square foot Hollywood Hills property was sold by Jewel and Ty for $1.4 million in 2009. They also bought a 2,200-acre cattle ranch in Stephenville, Texas, in 2007; in 2016, they sold it for $335,000. Jewel bought a property in Nashville, Tennessee, for $1.3 million. The pair also owned other properties.
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