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'Tis the Season to Give Back: Jewel Announces Her Charitable and Interactive Handmade Holiday Tour

The Handmade Holiday Tour kicks off Nov. 24 in Las Vegas and extends through the end of the year

This is not a foolish game — Jewel is coming back to a stage near you!

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter is hitting the road this holiday season for a unique concert experience, performing a combination of holiday classics, holiday originals and her hit songs alongside special guests, her father, Atz, and her brothers, Atz Lee and Nikos Kilcher.

“As kids, I toured a lot with my father, but this is the first time as an adult that I get to share the road with my dad and my brothers,” Jewel, 43, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “We are excited to embark on this holiday journey together and I am even more excited that my son Kase gets to travel with us all.”

The tour, which kicks off Nov. 24 in Las Vegas, will also act as “an instructional craft fair prior to the show where you can come to make gifts for loved ones,” she shares.

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“I decided to start this annual Handmade Holiday Tour to create an antidote to the stress and overwhelm I am seeing in culture, and to help us focus on the simple pleasures that make us feel satisfied and truly happy,” she says. “My Handmade Holiday Tour is designed to provide experiences that friends and families alike can use to connect and make meaningful gifts and most importantly memories to share for a lifetime.”

She adds, “I believe you don’t need a lot of money to create memories or even gifts that last a lifetime.”

The tour will also sponsor 25 individuals per show who are in need and will offer them vouchers for the gift-making workshops to ensure they have a handmade gift for the holidays. Concertgoers will also have the opportunity to make donations or donate workshop vouchers to these families.

Online retailer Zappos.com will also be working with local animal shelters in each city to sponsor pet adoptions at every show as they kick off Home for the Pawlidayz, their nationwide pet adoption program.

“Holidays don’t need to be about expensive gifts and lavish parties, often it’s the little gifts, gestures and moments that you remember most over the years and I want to bring that simplicity of feel-good giving back to the holidays with this tour,” says the Framed for Murder star.

Tickets will be available for pre-sale on Tuesday, Sept. 19 and are on sale to the general public on Friday, Sept. 22.

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Jewel is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, poet and actress. Her debut album, 'Pieces of You,' yielded the hit single "Who Will Save Your Soul."

Who Is Jewel?

Early life and career.

Jewel Kilcher was born on May 23, 1974, in Payson, Utah, and grew up in Alaska. She began her musical career at the age of six, joining her parents, singer-songwriters Atz Kilcher and Nedra Carroll, on stage. After her parents divorced, Jewel continued to tour for several years with her father, who taught her how to yodel—a singing technique that Jewel has used in many of her own songs.

At age 15, Jewel made a big career jump; she began performing as a solo act and won a vocal scholarship to Interlochen, a private school in Michigan dedicated to the arts. While there, she began writing songs and took up the guitar. Jewel later moved to San Diego, California, to live with her mother, and eventually branched out on her own, living in a van for a time as she tried to make it as a performer.

With her impressive vocal range and poetic lyrics, Jewel found success playing at coffeehouses in the San Diego area. Her first steady gig was at the Innerchange in Pacific Beach. While performing there, she was discovered by a music manager and record company representatives, who were impressed with her raw talent. Jewel signed a deal with Atlantic Records in 1994.

Albums and Songs

'pieces of you'.

Jewel's first album, Pieces of You , was released the following year, but it wasn't until 1996 that the album really took off. She toured constantly to promote her music, serving as the opening act for two musical legends: Bob Dylan and Neil Young . Her persistence began to pay off as her single "Who Will Save Your Soul" became a huge hit, climbing to No. 11 on Billboard 's Top 100 chart. Two other songs from Pieces of You , "You Were Meant for Me" and "Foolish Games," were also well-received. With its folk and pop sensibility, the album went on to sell around 11 million copies. Listeners were captivated by the heartfelt emotions Jewel conveyed in her songs.

'Spirit,' 'This Way'

Jewel's second album, Spirit , released in 1998, showcased her talents as a folk music performer. Filled with ballads and simple instrumentation, the album included the popular songs "Hands" and "Standing Still." After releasing the Christmas album Joy: A Holiday Collection (1999), Jewel returned with a lighter, more pop-based sound with 2001's This Way , which featured the title track and "Break Me" as singles.

Jewel went on to reinvent herself in 2003 with 0304 , making a foray into dance music, much to the surprise of her longtime fans. The album debuted at the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200 chart and featured the hit single "Intuition." Not only did Jewel sound different, she looked different too, wearing sexier, edgier clothing in her music videos and on stage.

'Goodbye Alice in Wonderland,' 'Perfectly Clear'

In 2006, Jewel returned to her roots with the personal, folk-influenced album Goodbye Alice in Wonderland , which met with mild success. In November 2007, Jewel embarked on another musical transformation when she signed with Valory Records and began working on her first country album. Perfectly Clear hit retail stores in June 2008 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album Chart. The album included the hit "Stronger Woman," which made it into the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

'Lullaby,' 'Sweet and Wild,' 'The Merry Goes 'Round'

In early 2009, Jewel announced that she was working on a new album. Lullaby , a collection of new songs and covers of popular nursery rhymes, was released in May 2009. The album's first single, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," a remake of the Judy Garland classic, was released on iTunes in March 2009. Her next album, the country-flavored Sweet and Wild (2010), featured the single "Stay Here Forever," which also appeared on the soundtrack to the romantic comedy Valentine's Day . Jewel then revisited the "children's songs for all ages" theme with The Merry Goes 'Round (2011).

'Picking Up the Pieces'

After releasing her Greatest Hits and Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection in 2013, Jewell revisited her folk roots once again with 2015's Picking Up the Pieces . Along with featuring several songs that were familiar to fans from her live performances, the album included a collaboration with Dolly Parton on "My Father's Daughter." Jewel later teased the arrival of her 12th studio album with the release of the songs "No More Tears" in late 2019 and "Grateful" in spring 2020.

Film and TV Appearances

'rides with the devil,' 'platinum hit'.

Jewel made her big-screen debut in the Ang Lee Civil War drama Rides with the Devil in 1999, acting alongside Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich. On the small screen, she appeared on such programs as The Lyons Den, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Las Vegas . Additionally, she immersed herself in the world of reality TV competitions by serving as a judge on shows like Nashville Star and Platinum Hit .

'Ring of Fire,' 'A Fixer Upper Mystery'

In June 2012, Jewel announced that she would be playing June Carter Cash —the second wife of Johnny Cash —in Lifetime's Ring of Fire . For the role, Jewel dyed her hair brown and had veneers applied to her teeth, straightening her signature crooked smile. Actress Reese Witherspoon had previously portrayed the singer in the 2005 film Walk the Line , and won an Oscar for her performance.

Jewel went on to star in multiple installments of Hallmark's A Fixer Upper Mystery TV movie series as home renovator turned sleuth Shannon Hughes.

Poetry and Books

Amid her early pop success, Jewel published a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor (1998), which quickly became a best seller. She followed with Chasing Down the Dawn: Stories from the Road (2000), a collection of musings and reflections from her journals over the years.

In 2015, the artist published a more traditional memoir, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story , which included the revelations that her father had been abusive and that her mom had embezzled money while serving as her business manager.

Charities and Activism

Jewel has also devoted her time to helping others. She established Higher Ground for Humanity, a charitable foundation that handles projects in many different countries, in 1998. Some of the organization's efforts include helping to provide clean drinking water to communities around the world. In 2008, Jewel auctioned off celebrities' hand-written lyrics to benefit HGH's drinking-water project.

In 2016, the artist launched her Never Broken initiative to spur emotional wellness, particularly among troubled children. In 2019, Jewel teamed with actresses Halle Berry and Rosario Dawson to produce Lost in America , a film about the experiences of homeless youth. The following year, she performed the "Live From San Quarantine: A Livestream Concert" to raise money for that particular vulnerable segment of the population.

Personal Life

In August 2008, Jewel married her longtime boyfriend, rodeo champion Ty Murray, in the Bahamas. She became a mother with the birth of son Kase in July 2011, before the couple announced their plans to divorce in 2014.

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• Name: Jewel
• Birth Year: 1974
• Birth date: May 23, 1974
• Birth State: Utah
• Birth City: Payson
• Birth Country: United States
• Gender: Female
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Jewel has sold nearly 20 million albums , been nominated for four Grammy Awards and maintains her standing as the most successful folk singer exported from Alaska.

So why bury herself under the ginormous ruby-red headgear created for the Queen of Hearts on “The Masked Singer,” a show primarily recognized for its kitsch factor?

“It checked a lot of boxes,” she tells USA TODAY from her home in Colorado. “I’m a mom and I’m 47, and you never hear women talking about kids and learning how to tour with a child who has nap times and school times. This business is notoriously unkind to women as they get older. Cher , Madonna , they’re great. But that’s so not who I am. My heroes, like Joni Mitchell , Rickie Lee Jones, became recluses. My goal was to be here 60 years, and the (show) gave me the opportunity to still be home with my son.”

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Jewel won the sixth season of the Fox celebrity singing competition in December and promptly released an EP of the songs she covered while contending, including Katy Perry’s “Firework,” Edith Piaf’s “La Vie En Rose” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”

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“I really fell in love with it all. I got to design the costume based on art I was doing, I got to sing and do the arrangements. I got very invested in the process.”

On Friday, Jewel unveils “Freewheelin’ Woman,” her first new album in seven years – a break that was also spurred by her need to dedicate her time to raising Kase, her 10-year-old son with ex-husband Ty Murray.

The dozen new songs produced by Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Green Day, Keith Urban) flit from the ‘80s pop/R&B of “Alibis” (“This one was just a free pass to have fun,” Jewel says) to the painfully raw “Almost” (“It was hard to sing in the studio because it’s so emotional”) to the Memphis soul-driven “Love Wins” (“Ella Fitzgerald taught me how to sing and mimic her agility and control, but I also wanted a whole Tina Turner vibe”).

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The album follows 2015’s “Picking Up the Pieces,” a sort of bookend to her 1995 breakthrough, “Pieces of You.” That’s when soft-spoken Jewel Kilcher arrived on radio with the contemplative “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “You Were Meant for Me,” armed with her riveting story of a hardscrabble upbringing in Alaska – where she also learned her admirable yodeling skills – and living in her car while playing California coffeehouses.

Through the decades, Jewel is still usually classified as an acoustic-based folk-pop singer. But that pigeonholing overlooks the fact that many of her biggest hits – “Standing Still,” “Intuition” – have been powered by a pulsing backbeat.

On “Freewheelin’ Woman,” which she’s releasing on her Words Matter Media label, Jewel again turns to a perky backbeat with “Dance, Sing, Laugh, Love,” a song that vibrates with unfettered joy.

“It’s hard to write pop songs that aren’t romantic,” Jewel says. “I was proud of ‘Intuition’ for that – it delivered a deeper concept wrapped in a pop song. Dancing and singing are my keys to life.”

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Jewel also enlisted a couple of musical pals for the album: Train (“Dancing Slow”) and Darius Rucker (“No More Tears”).

On June 8, she’ll kick off a tour in Massachusetts with Train and Blues Traveler that will wind across the country through early August.

“I’ve known them a long time,” she says of Train. “I find the road isolating, so I’m looking forward to (having company).”

Jewel is sensitive to the realities of isolation and the mental health struggles that often accompany it.

For nearly two decades, she has worked with the Inspiring Children Foundation, and during the coronavirus pandemic she engaged in “mental health triage” to help people cope with anxiety and depression.

COVID-19 "showed that everyone is struggling with mental health on some level,” she says. “It’s a dark predictor, and I believe we’re going to see a lot of physical ailments from the stress people sustained.”

In keeping with her aspirations to comfort those in need of emotional support, Jewel wrote the “The Story” to perform as her entry on NBC’s “American Song Contest” this month.

Though she was eliminated from the competition – she could return as a wild card – her dedication of the song to “anyone who is afraid their magic is gone” further amplified her lyrics: “She was fighting for a miracle, afraid she won’t see. But that’s not the end of the story.”

Olivia Rodrigo Sings With Jewel at Madison Square Garden: ‘An Honor’

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On the final night of Olivia Rodrigo ‘s Madison Square Garden takeover for the Guts world tour, she welcomed Jewel onstage for a dazzling duet of the singer-songwriter’s 1995 hit “You Were Meant for Me.”

“She is such an incredible songwriter. When I first started writing my songs, I would listen to her album Pieces of You before I went to bed,” Rodrigo said, before welcoming Jewel onstage. “She’s incredible and it’s such an honor that she’s here with me tonight.”

SPECIAL GUEST JEWEL pic.twitter.com/dZGhMlwIVl — erin on tour (@picturesofpoets) April 10, 2024

Jewel took the stage dressed in a black top, flowy pants, and a hat. The two women strummed their guitars and took turns singing the song’s lyrics before joining together in harmony for the chorus. “Dreams last so long/Even after you’re gone/I know that you love me,” the pair sang. “And soon you will see/You were meant for me.”

Olivia Rodrigo brought out Jewel at MSG!! 💜⭐️✨ #GUTSWorldTourNYC pic.twitter.com/UjMkPcvf3n — Rae (@Rabrizek) April 10, 2024

Rodrigo has featured several guests at several of her concerts on her recent tour. During her first show in New York City on Friday, April 5, she welcomed Noah Kahan onstage to perform a duet of “ Stick Season .” Rodrigo, a longtime fan of Kahan, previously covered the track for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge.

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Olivia intorducing singer Jewel to join her on stage at #GUTSWorldTourNewYork Night 4! pic.twitter.com/R2OavoTKoG — Olivia Rodrigo Daily (@DailyRodrigo) April 10, 2024

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“Rodrigo cemented her position in pop culture as a generation-defining artist. As a rockstar. And as an energy-filled idol that is only just beginning her career,” Rolling Stone wrote in a review of the tour.

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In 1996, ADN followed Jewel on tour just as she was making it big. Go behind the scenes.

Jewel sits for a portrait outside of Trader Mike’s, an antique store in Stanardsville, VA on January 20, 1996. Since the driving day from Charlottesville, VA to the next gig in Alexandria, VA was a relatively short one, Jewel and road manager Keith Anderson could afford a stop along the road. Jewel says she would like to collect things, if she had a home, but now she just shares a small house with a friend and doesn’t have room. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

Editor's note: This weekend, Alaska-grown musician Jewel will headline Salmonfest, a three-day music festival in Ninilchik. But in February 1996, Jewel was a 21-year-old whose star was on the rise. Her grueling tour schedule took her from bars to television appearances to an endless string of interviews.

Anchorage Daily News journalists Sandi McDaniel and Anne Raup documented the artist at the time, as she built on the success of songs "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant For Me." Originally published on Feb. 11, 1996, that story is below. 

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Beyond the gray lobby window of WNFZ radio, cars speed by on I-40, kicking up mist from a warm, soft rain washing over the Tennessee Blue Ridge. The station awaits its afternoon on-air interview. Who is it this time, a portly manager mumbles: Hootie and the Blowfish? Toad the Wet Sprocket?

But elevator doors yawn open on a waifish, young woman, guitar slung over her shoulder. She's dressed in crusty jeans and a scarred suede jacket of thrift-store quality. Locks of unwashed hair fall over an angelic face glancing up with an expression of uncertainty, maybe shyness. She actually shrugs as she shakes hands. And when she smiles, one tooth is either missing or askew, a flaw as endearing as all get-out.

East Tennessee is about to meet Alaska's Jewel Kilcher.

Road weary and missing sleep, Kilcher does not disappoint anyone, strumming her guitar and singing of love, then bantering with the station's disc jockey. While she's on the air, seven listeners rush to the station for a chance to meet her. Others will catch her act that night at a college bar called Flamingoes.

Barely old enough to order a beer in the joints she plays, Kilcher, 21, is a rising star in the record industry. Her first album, "Pieces of You, " has sold more than 200,000 copies. Kilcher can't read music and has never had voice lessons, yet she is a gifted singer and a prolific songwriter. Two originals — "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me" — are frequently aired on alternative rock stations around the country. A spokesman for Atlantic called Kilcher a record company favorite.

Jewel uses travel time to practice and write new songs. Many hours are spent in the rental van almost every day, getting from one concert venue to the next. January 20, 1996. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

Already she's made the talk show circuit — including "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." On Monday, she will appear on "Good Morning America." And she's in demand elsewhere. She was Dorothy in a TNT production of "The Wizard of Oz in Concert." She taped a VH1 edition of "Crossroads, " a nationwide music channel showcase. She wrote a song for the film "The Crossing Guard" and is working on a love song for a film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet."

Kilcher's singing career began as a child, when she made up a fraction of the singing Kilcher family of Homer. After her parents, Atz and Nedra, divorced, Kilcher continued to appear with her father, who encouraged her to relax on stage by paying her $5 every time she moved. And when a teacher sent Kilcher home in third grade for yodeling during math, Atz couldn't say much; he'd taught her how.

Homerites are following Kilcher's career with pride. Watching Kilcher outsing big stars on the TNT special, Homer writer Tom Bodett says he couldn't help picturing the little Homer girl standing on a chair next to Atz, yodeling her heart out. "I puddled up and called her dad, " he says.

To Mary Epperson, a member of the Homer Council on the Arts, Kilcher's most impressive quality is perseverance: "She chased a star, caught it and she's going with it."

As a teen, Kilcher solicited money from Homer fans to send herself to an arts academy in Michigan. Later, she visited her mother in sunny San Diego and decided to stay. From there, hers becomes a Cinderella story that captivates fans and media. The oft-repeated tale goes that Kilcher was living in her van and learning to surf when she took the stage at a coffeehouse in Pacific Beach, California. Word got around about the little girl with the big voice who could yodel. Soon limousines were pulling up outside, and eventually Kilcher signed a contract with Atlantic.

Now in her second year of touring, Kilcher is earning fans one gritty bar at a time in towns like Danbury, Conn.; Boise, Idaho.; and Allentown, Pa. Two underage girls standing in line to see a rock band at a bar in Charlottesville, Va., reveal Kilcher's emerging status: "Who is Jewel?" one asks. Then, after thinking a few seconds: "Oh, I know! I know! I love her!"

Prayers in the bathroom

Nearly every night until this nationwide saturation tour ends in March, Kilcher will sing an hourlong set, warming up for some alternative rockers, the Edwin McCain Band. In between, her time is filled with telephone and radio interviews and appearances on local TV. She races city to city in a dusty, gray van driven by her record company road manager, Keith Anderson, 37.

Jewel and her road manager Keith Anderson have an evening ritual having to do with time. Just before her set Keith takes off his watch and puts it on Jewel’s arm. On previous tours Jewel has counted on signals from off stage to let her know when she should wrap up her set. This time around she doesn’t have that luxury, she also doesn’t own a watch. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

In Knoxville, as on most of the Southern leg of her tour, Kilcher's audience is campus age, mostly beer drinkers and mostly there to see McCain. But Kilcher attracts interest as she strums a guitar decorated with feathers and preens for intense young men who press against the stage, studying her face and body. The crowds soak in her love songs and laugh at the novelty of her yodeling.

Few pursuits invite such instant and fickle adoration, and if it all went bust tomorrow, Kilcher says, she might disappear in Paris, write poetry, study art, learn a foreign language and how to cook. But for now, she rides her momentum, working the media, gaining ground with each live appearance.

Jewel talks with disc jockey J.J. Randle in Knoxville, TN, during an interview. While Jewel was on the air, 7 people stopped by the station to see if they could sit in or meet her.  (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

"You could burp, and I'd love it, " a DJ tells her in Knoxville.

"I like that about you, " Kilcher shoots back.

Backstage at a club just off the railroad tracks in Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, Kilcher shows up in retro clothes, ill-fitting men's pants and a synthetic shirt with pearl snap buttons. As she steps over stage cables in black platform shoes, her shoulders hunched, her arms held out at the elbows, she might be a 12-year-old learning to walk in her mom's high heels. She demands time alone before going on stage, saying she prays to steady herself before each performance. Not your kind of praying, she says.

Kilcher can be as sweet as moon pie one minute, as sour as lemon the next. She blames her moodiness on the pressures of touring and has taken to disappearing into bathrooms for precious minutes of privacy.

"The bathroom is like the last place in America you can go to be alone. It's where young women go to cry in restaurants. Where you go when you shoplift something. It's where I go to pray."

It isn't just the public attention, she explains. Interviews — about 20 the first week of the tour alone — are grinding and repetitive. Reporters are nice to you, she says, then trash you in print. Everybody wants something. A fawning interviewer asks her to personalize several autographs to friends, then mentions he, too, is a songwriter and maybe she wouldn't mind if he sent her some of his songs. Sure, says Kilcher.

"That happens 20 times a day, " she says later. "You just have to have a sense of humor about it."

Kilcher works harder than most, says road manager Anderson, a rail-thin Brit whose home base is New York City. It's up to the performer how many interviews to accept, he says, and he's advised Kilcher to slow her pace to avoid burnout. She is in control, though, using body language and a drop-dead look to inform reporters their interview is over.

"You don't have to be rude, but you just can't afford extra minutes when it comes down to extra minutes, " she says.

Kilcher acknowledges a soft underbelly. She has learned to ignore some questions and talk around others. A romantic link with actor Sean Penn is off limits. "I never talk about it, " she says when asked directly. But while shopping for honey-mustard dressing in a Charlottesville supermarket, she buys a pack of stationery stickers, saying she always likes to take something back to Sean's kids, ages 2 and 4.

On the road, she longs for home, peace and stillness.

"It's a sacrifice. That and losing your privacy to fame. That kind of thing is the worst. But because I get to do what I love, I'm just really thankful for it. You always have to keep adjusting your attitude. It's really easy to collapse into exhaustion. As soon as you do that, you're dead. Because the only thing that keeps you going is your energy. You know, you've got to keep positive."

She just couldn't do this, she says, if her heart wasn't in it.

Duffels and Dostoevsky

After the Charlottesville show, Anderson loads Kilcher's duffel into the van and the two head north to Alexandria. There's time for an antiques shop outside Stanardsville, where Kilcher tries on a Minnie Pearl hat and pries cash out of her pocket for an Oriental-style keepsake box and a deck of girlie playing cards. If she owned a house, she'd collect things, but for now she shares a small place with a friend. She doesn't say who.

Jewel looks over goods in an antique store in Stanardsville, VA. In 1996 she said that she would like to collect things, if she had a home, but now she just shares a small house with a friend and doesn’t have room. January 20, 1996. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

"I don't have any friends, " she says later. "I'm a recluse. I don't talk to people. I have my mom, and I don't need anyone else, really."

In interviews from town to town, Kilcher launches into the same observations she had 200 miles back. That she believes in angels. That we are each other's angels. That people should do what they love. That we're trained to make money but not to be happy. After a while, it sounds like recitation.

She spouts off so many lines, it's easy to doubt her sincerity. Likely, the talented ingenue is still inventing herself, not only as a woman but as an emerging artist. She adopts personas with chameleon ease. One minute she's a giggling teen among a pack of giggling teens huddled around her after a show. Minutes later, back on the band bus, she talks thoughtfully with Anderson about education in America.

Kilcher has neglected her own formal education, but she has a keen curiosity and a desire to learn. The duffel Anderson lugs around for her is laden with books. Under an appaloosa sky, driving past towns like Ruckersville and Culpeper, Kilcher curls up on the van seat with a blanket and "Crime and Punishment."

"It's hard to be a sensitive chick in a dive bar, " she says of herself.

On tour, Kilcher and Anderson stay in high-end hotels like the Hyatt and the Regency — places they can check in and out of smoothly. Anderson carries a portable computer and makes notes in his "book of lies." He requires fax access and continually checks in via e-mail with Atlantic regarding the day's activities.

The smoky clubs Kilcher plays are a long way from Alaska's meadows, and she replaces fresh air and sunshine with assorted vitamins. For her vocal cords, she drinks bottled water and herbal tea and tells herself birds don't get sore throats.

"I used to feel like I was holding my breath on the road, " she says. Only on the rare day off could she exhale. Now, she finds ways to entertain herself. One notion is to learn photography, to document the grimy backstage lounges where she spends so much of her time.

During radio interviews, Kilcher takes advantage of station flunkies, handing them lists of items to pick up for her, like tampons, fruit and cottage cheese. Yeah, it feels weird, but there's hardly time to do it herself. She swears she travels with four shirts and four pairs of pants and that's all. Laundry day is any time she can get her clothes washed in the basement of one of the hotels.

For Kilcher, tour dates and locations are a blur. Maps, clubs, hotels and assorted static are left to Anderson. When the two get lost minutes before an appearance in Alexandria, Kilcher comes undone, reaching her "freak-out zone" and exercising the F-word. Anderson, taking one wrong turn after another, stays calm, eventually delivering Kilcher to the show with seconds to spare.

'I know where I'm from'

On stage, Kilcher weaves humor into her act, talking to the crowd, telling stories, hamming her way through practiced bits. She sometimes speaks her lyrics instead of singing them. Often, she seems amateurish. When the crowd isn't with her, she sinks into the stage.

"I can't talk, " she says later. "There's nothing to go into… When you try to talk, you sound like an idiot."

Indifferent audiences make her feel awkward, like when the popular girl in school doesn't like you, she says. Yet above and beyond her rawness and immaturity, Kilcher's promise is a voice as creamy and pure as alpine lilies.

She pierces the chalky smoke of nightclubs with this voice, at once powerful, evocative and ethereal. She closes her eyes when she sings like this. Her face beams. She raises her arms, wrinkles her nose and steadies herself with one leg behind her, as if to let her whole body release the words.

Jewel performs for a rapt audience in Knoxville, TN. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

A reviewer for The Washington Post credited Kilcher for this seraphic voice but labeled her phrasing "diary-like pronouncements." Her album, he wrote, "exposes an unfortunate tendency to present trite, hackneyed sentiments as if they were oracular visions from a young prophet to a jaded world."

Kilcher's hometown newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune, also has given her mixed reviews, concluding: "When Jewel's words catch up with the rest of her, the full picture could be blinding."

Talent, says Kilcher, is like newly seeded grass. If it gets walked on or if it isn't nurtured, it dies. Too often, fans, producers and the media recognize her gift but expect her to spring forth fully formed. That can't happen, she says, adding: "Hard wood does grow slowly."

Inside of three years, Kilcher has gone from a teenager who never so much as paid a light bill to a young woman making crucial business decisions for herself and her "team, " which includes her mother and mentor, Nedra Carroll. The two keep coast-to-coast phone lines hot.

"I help her break down the information coming into her life, " says Carroll. "Most 21-year-olds have time to discover themselves in certain ways. Their emotional side can develop over time. With Jewel, that's all accelerated."

If Kilcher is spinning, who wouldn't be a little crazed with the unnatural necessity of repeating one's life facts to dozens of slick-talking DJs and prying reporters? All in search of a peg, a means to label and define her. Is she a female Bob Dylan? A Joni Mitchell revivalist? The next Tori Amos? The next Tracy Chapman? Does she really, as her record company flier claims, have "the wisdom of an 80-year-old, the hope of a 4-year-old, the compelling voice of a 20-year-old?"

And for the hundredth time — is Jewel her real name?

Yes. And yes, she really is from Alaska, she informs each audience, sometimes revealing how she grew up using an outhouse or how, as a child, she visited an Eskimo village where people had never seen blond hair. She describes herself as an Alaska farm girl, so raw starting out that she had to follow written instructions on how to apply makeup.

Kilcher says she tells people about her Alaska background because it is a place that speaks to people's spirits. Whether or not she's working an angle, Alaska roots do set Kilcher apart and give interviewers a hook.

Most of Kilcher's family still live near Homer. When she's homesick, she says, it is for the pristine landscape of her childhood. She carries Alaska rocks with her and reveals she has special-ordered a guitar to be inlaid with a map of Alaska and a girl riding a horse on a beach like Kachemak Bay's. She hopes to visit family here in spring.

"When I think of myself, I see myself there on those meadows, and that's what I consider beauty and godliness, " she says. "I know where I'm from. I know what beauty is. I know I'm part of it."

Yodeling in Manhattan

Storming out of a show in Alexandria, Virginia, Kilcher climbs on the McCain band's bus and slams the door. High school kids had talked over her songs, someone had shouted a lewd comment and someone else had thrown a penny at her.

If they failed to grasp Kilcher's talent in Virginia, she is adored in New York City. In an unmarked studio on 52nd Street a few days later, staff at VH1 prepare for Kilcher with fresh tulips, trays of fruit and two dozen bottles of Evian.

A producer with a pierced eyebrow paces the hallways, expressing concern when Kilcher is late. A schedule taped to the studio wall has "Jewel" marked off in unforgiving time blocks. When the record company does deliver Kilcher, she is escorted to makeup, then into the cool, cavernous studio.

No smoke here. A cellist, violinist and pianist are warming up. As a handful of onlookers stand in the shadows, Kilcher takes her place before the cameras, a stopwatch in one hand to time herself. When she throws her arms back in song, her belly button shows. Looks great, someone tells her. Do it again.

Cameras roam the stage and Kilcher is poised and professional, delivering her lyrics with such richness, no one could guess how little sleep she's working on. Her camera charisma sends the VH1 people into whispered conferences and someone says the control room guys are in love.

After a "live" interview that will air several days later, and a quick review of the taping, Kilcher is whisked away for an afternoon of appointments. Late that night, hundreds of 20-somethings pack shoulder to shoulder into Irving Plaza, a club near Union Square. This time Kilcher — uptown in black leather pants and a blue metallic shirt — is the main attraction, playing after McCain, not before.

She sings the same songs as in the South, but here, fans drape over the balconies to catch the lyrics. She seems more at ease with this crowd, even choosing to sing an intensely personal song about the emotional desolation of divorce on her family.

Fans hand her notes and flowers. Someone holds up a lighter.

In New York, Kilcher is a star. But a truer portrait of her life now may be 800 miles back in Knoxville, where after her show, she unceremoniously squeezed out a side door of the noisy campus bar.

Fatigued, another hardscrabble hopeful with a guitar, she walked through the rain, then, sinking into the rented van with New York plates, made ready to roll with the promise of morning.

With guitar on her back, Jewel leaves the bar she played in Knoxville TN. It was rainy, cold and windy but she’s on her way to the next city on the tour. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1996)

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Jewel says she’s ‘really excited’ for her 10-year-old son to play drums on her tour

Jewel has a new outlook when it comes to being a musician. The 47-year-old singer-songwriter has been performing since she was a young girl in Alaska, often with her father, Atz Kilcher.

She’s keeping the family tradition going, this time with her 10-year-old son, Kase Murray, who will be joining her on tour and playing the drums later this year.

“Kase is going to play. He plays drums ,” Jewel told TODAY at the “ American Song Contest ” red carpet on Monday after her performance. “So I’m really excited that he’ll get to tour with me. It’s going to make me enjoy touring again.”

“We’ve toured a little bit, not a whole ton,” added Jewel, who was accompanied by her son on Monday. “We’ve always had my whole family out, so this will be just he and I.”

Jewel represented her home state of Alaska during the NBC singing competition show’s third episode. Hosted by Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg , the show is modeled after “Eurovision Song Contest” and includes 56 artists from the 50 states, U.S. territories and Washington, D.C., competing to win the country’s vote for Best Original Song. Aside from Jewel, other recognizable singers who are competing include Michael Bolton and Macy Gray.

Jewel performed an original song called “ The Story. ” During her performance, she took a moment to dedicate the track to anyone whose life has “taken a turn for the worse.”

“Or anybody who’s afraid the magic is gone. Take heart, the story is not over yet,” she said during the episode.

Jewel shared that the dedication message came to her earlier in the morning when she was on a hike.

“I talked to the producers, like, ‘Can I say this during my bridge? I know I didn’t practice it,’” she shared with TODAY. “But I really felt that the song really is about when you think your life’s over, it takes these dark turns, but the story’s (not over).”

One might wonder why the four-time Grammy-nominated singer decided to compete for “American Song Contest” when she’s already achieved so much success in her career. Jewel noted that, as a mother, the show allows her to spend more time with her son.

“Times change, you know. The world is so different. And I think it’s really hard — a lot of women don’t talk about what it’s like to not only be a woman as you grow and age in the music business, but to be a mom,” the “You Were Meant For Me” singer said. “It’s hard to find opportunities that don’t make me go on tour for two years. I think it’s why we lose a lot of women in our middle age. And I think women are obviously great writers. ...

“So for me, this show really checks the box of, hey, it’s supporting songwriters (and) I’m a huge ‘Eurovision’ fan. But it let me be a mom without going on tour for a year. And (it) lets me do a really popular show, have my son with me on the weekend and go home and still be a mom.”

Earlier this year, Jewel announced her 13th studio album, “Freewheelin’ Woman,” which will be released on April 15. The artist said that she feels like her songwriting and singing are at their “peak” and she’s “really proud” of what she’s written.

Jewel said she pushed herself with the sound, and she hopes people enjoy it. 

“I always want to do something that’s new, but it has to be authentic,” she explained. “This is a much more soulful album. I really pushed myself on the range and the melody writing.”

“American Song Contest” airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on NBC.

Liz Calvario is a Los Angeles-based reporter and editor for TODAY.com who covers entertainment, pop culture and trending news.

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Jewel’s fan favorite Handmade Holiday Tour returns this Holiday season for a one of a kind tour, performing Holiday classics, Holiday originals and classic Jewel songs alongside Special Guests and family members Atz, Atz Lee and Nikos Kilcher (Alaska: The Last Frontier). A true family affair, the tour marks the second annual ‘Handmade Holiday Tour’ alongside Jewel’s family members.

Called “one of the most richly idiomatic pop singers of her generation (Rolling Stone),” Jewel has sold over 30 million albums to date and earned praise from fellow songwriters including Loretta Lynn and Neil Young. A cornerstone of the current American and folk movements, the singer will perform fan favorites spanning the record including “Who Will Save Your Soul”, which sold 12million copies.  She most recently toured with her album ‘Picking Up the Pieces’ sharing stories from her NYT bestselling memoir Never Broken — Songs Are Only Half the Story .

Atz Kilcher is singer/songwriter Jewel’s father. Along with her family he stars in Discovery Channel’s hit show Alaska: The Last Frontier which centers on the Kilcher family and their community outside Homer, Alaska. Begun by patriarch Yule Kilcher who immigrated from Europe during WWII, and currently led by his sons, Otto and Atz Kilcher (singer Jewel’s father) the family has lived on their land for four generations. The show also features the homesteaders who live nearby and interact with the Kilchers.

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Jewel Declines to Answer When Asked About Kevin Costner Romance

Jewel is staying mum on her rumored romance with Kevin Costner .

"I found love, and I'm not talking about Kevin's. I'm so happy, irrelevant of a man. It has nothing to do with being in a relationship or not being in one," the singer, 49, told People in a new profile published Friday, May 3.

"I'm just happy," she added of her own self-love. "I'm good."

Though she declined to answer questions about her love life, the "I Was Meant for You" crooner told the outlet that she's "more inspired now than I've ever been in my life. The most since I was like 19 or 20 years old."

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This isn't the first time Jewel (whose full name is Jewel Kilcher) has addressed her relationship with Costner, 69. In an interview with Elle in April, she broke her silence on the couple's close bond.

"He's a great person," she told the outlet of the actor, adding that "the public fascination" about their alleged romance "is intense for sure."

The pair first sparked romance speculation after they were spotted spending time together on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands while attending a tennis fundraiser for Jewel's Inspiring Children Foundation in December 2023.

In photos published by TMZ , the Yellowstone star was seen with his arms wrapped around Jewel's waist as she held a microphone while seemingly addressing a crowd. The pair also posed together in a group photo, wearing matching all-white ensembles.

Shortly after the photos were published, an insider exclusively told Us Weekly that the twosome had been quietly dating for some time.

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"Kevin and Jewel had an extremely high opinion of each other and have always gotten along great," the source explained. "They check a lot of boxes for each other."

Noting that the pair's relationship blossomed "organically" from their shared love of music and running in the same social circles for years, the insider added, "There's no pressure of expectation here. Kevin just wants to go with the flow - and so does she. But the consensus is that he's found a real keeper in Jewel and that this has the makings of something that could be very special."

Costner and Jewel's romance came months after he and ex-wife Christine Baumgartner – whom he wed in 2004 – finalized their divorce in September 2023 after a messy four-month legal battle. The exes share three children together: Cayden, 16, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13.