ABSTRACT
Born in Payson, Utah, Kilcher was raised by her father in rural Alaska. After attending Michigan’s Interlochen Fine Arts Academy, she relocated to Southern California to live with her mother, where she pursued a career as a singer-songwriter. She began playing in local coffeehouses, which brought her to the attention of Atlantic Records, which signed her in 1995. Her first album, Pieces of You (East West/Atlantic 82700), initially saw meager sales, until 14 months after its release the song “Who Will Save Your Soul?” became a major chart hit. Other hits, notably “You Were Meant for Me,” followed in a similar soft-rock vein. Jewel published collections of her own poetry along with several followup albums, but had only one further hit, “Hands,” in 1998. Then, in 2003, the singer tried to remake her image as a more sexy siren on the album 0304 (Atlantic 83638), a collection of dance-pop songs. It produced a hit with the song “Intuition.”
