
After the divorce of her parents, Jewel used to travel across the States in the company of her father. These people constituted Jewel’s audience when she began performing in little villages and towns in Alaska.

Due to the tourism industry developed in that region, there were many foreigners and people from the rest of the country to come and go. Aged six, she started practicing music considering it her lifetime occupation. Although Utah is her native state, Jewel spent her childhood years in Alaska. Today, Jewel is one of the most outstanding and celebrated pop and folk music stars mainly to her natural strong voice and prominent song writing skills.

Her ancestors were of the European origin and relocated to the USA in the first half of the twentieth century. Jewel was born Jewel Kilcher on in Payson, Utah.
