My name is Jewel. Jewel Kilcher. (Yes, Jewel is my real given name). I am 5'6”. I have green eyes, like my grandmother Ruth. Ruth was an aspiring opera singer who left pre-war Germany, got on a ship headed to Alaska to marry a man she hardly knew because she felt her future children must be born somewhere free.
She married Yule Kilcher, who was a young idealist who hiked across the Alaskan glaciers by foot, with a ladder on his back, which he used to bridge crevasses in the ice so he could walk over them. He was looking for adventure and new land, away from the Nazi movement. Alaska was still not a state in the late 40's, so he was given (as all takers were) 600 acres of land for free if he promised to homestead it. He sent word back to his homeland of Switzerland, where many friends expressed wanting to move, that he had found a good piece of land. But none came, except Ruth.
I got my love of language from Yule. He studied the origins of languages. Ruth taught all her 8 children (she gave birth to most of them alone in a dirt floored log cabin!) to sing and play instruments. I was raised outdoors on the same homestead my family settled around all the music of my family.
We lived far from town. We had to walk 2 miles just to get to the saddle barn I was raised in... No running water, no heat- we had a coal stove and an outhouse and we mainly lived off of what we could kill or can. We picked berries and made jam. We caught fish to freeze and had gardens and cattle to live on. I rode horses every day in the summer beneath the Alaskan midnight sun. I loved it there.
Hello Jewel, loved your music. Very nice. Think I met you at T-Bones funeral a while back. Sending you love an respect from Motown USA. If you get a chance. Go to my site an hear my daughter. She just got a deal an she was in the classical opera field at first also. There is even a classical video on there. An also one of her pop tunes that you will hear a lot of next year. Her name is CARTIA. Bless you sweetheart. Keep it bumpin
Well, i just want to say that i'm a great big fan of you since your debut album in 1995.I remember that i imported the cd and it cost i little fortune but... Well,whatever...maybe this message never get to you,but i LOVE YOU forever and i've cried so many times cause i know for sure that i'm never ever going to see you live...
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