Jewel

Jewel’s music education and evolution, from 1. Growing up on an Alaskan homestead singing with her extended family → 2. Teaching herself to yodel at 5 years old → 3. Performing all over Alaska with her parents, including in bars and Inuit villages → 4. Attending Michigan’s Interlochen music school at 15, and street busking in Mexico during school breaks → 5. Negotiating the record deal for Pieces of You and striving to protect the organic process of making her music → 6. Releasing her latest record, Freewheelin’ Woman, and embracing what one reviewer dubbed her BDE performance style Jewel went from a girl who grew up with no running water on an Alaskan homestead, to a homeless teenager in San Diego, to an award-winning, multi platinum recording artist who released one of the best-selling debuts of all time. Through her career, Jewel has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and has earned 26 nominations for such awards as the Grammys, American Music Awards, MTV Awards, VH1 Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and Country Music Awards, winning eight times. Jewel has been featured on the cover of Time magazine and Rolling Stone, and has performed on Saturday Night Live, at the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals, for the Pope and the President of the United States. Her music has spanned a wide range of genres with top hits in folk, pop, club, country, standards, children’s, and holiday music. Jewel’s new studio album, Freewheelin’ Woman, via her own Words Matter Media, is out now.  Follow Silverlake Conservatory of Music at @silverlake_conservatory  For more information on Parallel, visit parallel.la Follow Cadence13 at @cadence13 Follow Jewel at @jewel Follow Flea at @flea333 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices