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Yahoo!'s Web Celeb   Jewel The 22 year old recording artist Jewel was first introduced to music and the beauty of nature on her 800-acre Alaskan homestead where she was raised. It was there that she and her brothers played and where she hayed and gardened and rode horses. Jewel carries along a Tupperware container filled with soil from her Alaskan home when she travels. Jewel grew up with no shower, TV or bathroom in the house and no heat except a coal stove.   (All photos are exclusive of Yahoo! Web Celeb. Photos used with permission from Frank Micelotta/Atlantic Records.) Born to Swiss parents, the Kilchers, settled on the outskirts of the town of Homer. Jewel's Mormon father and mother were singer/songwriters who began taking Jewel on their singing engagements to local hotels when Jewel was six along with her two brothers. Her yodeling always was the star attraction of the act. When her parents divorced at age eight, Jewel remained in Homer with her father.She continued singing with him in bars and restaurants for the next seven years. Her mother had taught her about art, poetry, and music. Jewel began writing poetry as an outlet after the divorce. ".... the real beauty of writing: it makes you more intimate with yourself." All About Jewel   The Ultimate Jewel Page    from MTV/Yahoo!'s unfURLed    Jewel's Category on Yahoo! Celebrity on the Web    Yahoo! LA's Showbiz    Other Celebrity Web Sites    The BIZ Message Board    Search for Acting Jobs Jewel traveled to Hawaii where she lived for a year and then lived with her mom in Anchorage and then Seward, Alaska. She then returned to high school for her junior and senior years at Michigan's Interlochen Fine Arts Academy on a vocal scholarship. She immersed herself in drama, dance, sculpture, music and took up guitar and began to write songs in her senior year. It is hard for Jewel to learn things since she is dyslexic and she had to practice 20 times as hard to learn to play the guitar. After graduation, Jewel followed her mother to San Diego where she had relocated. After waitressing, some dead-end jobs and scrounging around for money, she finally decided to live out of her van and camped out. Living on a shoestring budget and a diet of carrots and peanut butter, she decided to live her dream by surfing, writing poetry, and hanging out at coffeeshops writing songs. All she owned was a backpack, a surfboard and a mattress. The owner of the Innerchange Coffeehouse offered her a weekly gig at his Pacific Beach venue. Soon her shows were consistent sell-outs and local writers started stopping by. "Her voice is many things, all of them beautiful," wrote San Diego's Slamm Magazine. "When she opens up, the sound is crystalline and pure." Her first album for Atlantic Records Pieces of You contain 14 songs that possess a stark honesty and keen insight balanced by an ability to absorb life's realities and tell a story that somehow make sense of it all. The first single was Who Will Save Your Soul, of which the lyrics came from observing the people around her. The second single was You Were Meant For Me. Jewel's music uses her vibrant imagination, which is fueled, by the vast Alaskan wilderness, the musical instincts of a lifelong performer, and the courage to cut her own path in life, Jewel embodies a singular poetic voice. But if you listen closely enough to Pieces of You, you may well discover a piece of yourself lying somewhere within the songs. Another UN Production Past Web Celebs: Laurie Plaskin, Andrew Shue, Calvert Deforest, Yasmine Bleeth, Howard Stern, Pamela Lee Anderson, David Letterman, Cindy Margolis, Will Smith, and Kate Mulgrew. Also check out Yahoo! NY's Model of the Month and Yahoo! Chicago's Blues Review. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. Copyright © 1994-97 Yahoo! All Rights Reserved.