![]() She admits that the 1995 release of her debut album was initially a flop. While homeless, the singer ended up in a record label bidding war before signing with Atlantic. Jewel was raised in Alaska, left home for California and built a following through local radio airplay and coffee house gigs. I get to know an amazing human now that I never thought I’d get to know.” “He’s a miracle,” she gushed of her dad, Atz Kilcher, who is also known from Discovery’s “Alaska: The Last Frontier.” “In his 60s he got sober, and not just sober and apologized, but actually changed behavior. But the fences in her personal life have since mended. She went on to call Penn “a supportive and pivotal figure in my personal life.” The actor also led Jewel to record “Emily,” for his movie “The Crossing Guard.” The track is featured on the four-volume reissue of “Pieces of You,” out now.Īs for her father, Jewel notes that the song “Daddy” on “Pieces of You” is not autobiographical but she admits the track contains “some of my own youthful anger.” The singer has been open about her growing up in an abusive household with her father who struggled with alcoholism. It made me be very clear about my energy, my sexual energy and what I wanted to be known for.’” “I realized that the attention wasn’t personal, it was the inertia of loneliness. You’re going to be great to sleep with when you’re older,’” Jewel says. ![]() He folded my fingers around it and he said, ‘Call me when you’re 16. “I grew up bar singing with my dad since I was 8, and I remember a man put a dime in my hand when I was 9. And the singer kept her relationship with Penn private until her 2015 memoir, "Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story" because she wanted to be known for her work, not who she was dating. Jewel shunned the MTV reality show because she worried about the effect it’d have on her mental health (“Nobody needed this living in a house with them,” she jokes). Part of being one of the best was maintaining control of her professional and personal life. She signed with Atlantic Records in part because the deal rewarded her on the backend for albums sold, as opposed to advancing her a loan. That meant I had 60 years of work ahead of me, of working at that.” “I wanted to be one of the best singer-songwriters of all time. “I was ambitious, but in a stranger way,” she tells USA TODAY. Now, as the singer-songwriter reissues the 25th-anniversary version of the debut album “Pieces of You,” she looks back on her career path with pride. She said no to joining the cast of MTV’s “The Real World.” She chose to keep her romance with actor Sean Penn private. ![]() Watch Video: Jewel explains why she turned down MTV’s ‘The Real World’Įarly in her career, Jewel turned down a $1 million signing bonus, despite being homeless.
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