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.
i just want to thank you for sharing your beautiful voice with the world...alot of what you say inspires me and Lord knows there were days that i wouldn't have gotten thru without your music !! i'll see you at chumash on the 23rd i'm so excited i know when i see you i'll cry.....God Bless you
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Thank you for the add Jewel! Love you signing~~ Somewhere Over The Rainbow I saw ya on dancing with the stars! Hope to hear you live someday, sure I will. Love your pics esp the ones of your grandparents. Ty is one lucky guy! The best to you always!!!!
Just dropping in to say ”hello!”, my dear sweet friend Jewel! I just wanted to remind you that you’re absolutly amazingly amazing&super gorgeous! Your music is pretty cool and I'll not change it for anybody. Take much love to you and to all what you are doing out! Yours Daumants!
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"Michael Jackson, Good or Bad" that is the name of my last blog. It is one we all should know the truth about. Hope you will find time to see it. By, Mark Gasser