From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #487 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, November 10 2002 Volume 07 : Number 487 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * For the latest news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "calendar" * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V7 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] article in local paper ["Lindsay" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 23:14:29 -0500 From: "Lindsay" Subject: [EDA] article in local paper for those who wanted it, I started typing it but then I felt my eyes closing... and my neck kept snapping to the side the way it does when you catch yourself falling asleep.. anyway, you can read whatever I typed if you want, but the article itself is pretty long. Maybe I'll get to finish it another day if enough people want to read it. anyway, as I said, I would try to get extra copies. well, more people wanted it than the number of papers left by the time I got to the store. =\ so since I don't have enough copies, maybe some of you will want to trade something for it? the paper was only 50 cents but this will cut down the number of people who still want a copy (I think). so if you want the artice and would like to trade for it (nothing special.. just something), email me. Lindsay Probably about the first half of the article: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get intimate with Jewel Singer to perform solo acoustic show at Foxwoods Casino By David Friedman Jewel is no stranger to the spirit of giving. Through her four albums - which have combined to sell 27 million units - the singer-songwriter-guitarist has given fans some of the best pop, folk and rock songs of the past eight years. Among them are such memorable hits "Who Will Save Your Soul," "Hands," and "Standing Still." Through her philanthropic organization, Higher Ground for Humanity, Jewel has started the Clearwater Project to provide clean and safe drinking water to people in Honduras, Bangladesh, Mexico and India. And through her latest project, Soul City Cafe, she has given virtually unknown artists the greatest gift a musician can hope for - exposure. Various up and coming artists are taking turns opening for Jewel on her solo acoustic tour, which will stop at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket tonight. "We started this thing Soul City Cafe just because of how corporate the music industry has become and how difficult it is," Jewel said in an Oct. 29 interview from San Diego. "All the development budgets have been cut across the board from every single label. Artists like me would never have a shot. "If I got signed today, there would be no developing me for two years and waiting for that album to hit," she added. "That's a shame. So I invented Soul City Cafe to basically sign singer-songwriters - from nu-metal to pop to folk - - and give them a place and a forum to develop." Born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, Jewel Kilcher was still a baby when her family moved to Homer, Alaska. She said the state is cold, dark, and beautiful. "It's very isolated," she said. "It really was like going back in time for about 100 years when I lived there." Along with father Atz Kilcher, mother Lenedra Carroll, older brother Shane and younger brother Atz, Jewel would sculpt, carve wood, sing, play instruments, do scrimshawing and weave baskets. Jewel's father got her into "real rootsy kinds of things," including old Irish folk music, country music and yodeling. Jewel was 6 when she first sang publicly. Two years later, her parents divorced and she stayed with her father. For the next seven years, the two of them sang together at bars, hotels and Eskimo villages. "I learned a lot of my showmanship from him, how to be professional ... a tremendous work ethic, humility and a groundedness," Jewel said. "Those are things that I think have really given me what I have today - especially my work ethic. I'm the captain of a ship that has about 40 crew members when I'm traveling with the band. And how to do that is really an art form. "How to get everybody to want to work together and want to come back working for you is something I enjoy," she added. "I think I got that from my dad. How to wing a show, how to read an audience - a lot of old school kind of showmanship skills - I got from him." Jewel was about 16 when she moved to Anchorage, Alaska, to live with her mother, an artist who went to Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Wash. "(She) was always sort of more of a highbrow," Jewel said of her mother and manager. "My mom was always sort of into culture. She got me into operas and Bulgarian choirs and (singer) Yma Sumac and performance art. My mom also got me into reading a lot - poetry from an early age, reading the classics and all that from a young age. "My mom's very bright and she understands, I think better than any manager in the business, how an artist thinks and how an artist works and what an artist needs to be producing good art as well as (being) commercial and in a business," Jewel added. "She balances the two." During her two years at Interlochen Arts Academy, a college preparatory school in Michigan, Jewel taught herself how to play the guitar. After graduating in 1992, she moved to San Diego and lived with her mother while working as a waitress and retail salesperson. Eventually, however, Jewel moved into her blue 1979 Volkswagon van and turned her focus to her music. She played her first show at San Diego's Innerchange Coffeehouse and soon became a regular performer there, earning a local following by 1993. Her shows drew interest from record labels in early 1994 and she signed with Atlantic that March. "You can do my job for two reasons," Jewel said. "One is because you want to be famous. Or you can do it because you like art. I was living in my car and playing at coffee shops because I liked art. I believed in music. I totally believe in the power of music, the power of art. And I saw it proven every day, on a really small scale, what music does for people and what it did for myself. "When I got signed, I knew why I was doing what I was doing," she added. "I didn't make a folk record at the height of grunge because I thought it was gonna make me famous." Released Feb. 28, 1995, Jewel's debut album, "Pieces of You," featured the hit singles "Who Will Save Your Soul," "You Were Meant for Me" and "Foolish Games." Mostly recorded live at the Innerchange, the album spent 114 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at No. 4. It went on to go 11 times platinum and made Jewel a star. "It ended up being a freakish success," Jewel said. "The record isn't necessarily what you'd call cool or hip, considering what that standard usually is held up against. But it was a sincere record and it was an honest record and people seemed to respond to it." Jewel enjoyed some aspects of fame, like being able to work with other talented musicians and having the leverage to be able to explore her interests in other art forms. For instance, she released her poetry collection, "A Knight Without Armor," in 1998. Still, she has always found it somewhat uncomfortable talking about herself extensively to reporters. Regardless, Jewel's celebrity status only grew with the release of her second album, 1998's "Spirit." The quadruple platinum album features the singles "Hands," "Down So Long" and "Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)." The singer, who released a Christmas album in 1999, found herself performing at everything from the Super Bowl and World Series to AIDS benefits and Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #487 ***************************