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New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and outstanding life in an inspirational memoir that includes her childhood, surge to fame, relationship, and motherhood. When Jewel's first record, Pieces of You, topped the graphs in 1995, her emotional voice and susceptible performance were groundbreaking. In the traditions of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell (she has been in comparison to both), a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in generations. Now, with over 30 million albums sold worldwide, Jewel says the storyline of her life and the lessons discovered from her experience and her music. Living over a homestead in Alaska, Jewel discovered to yodel at time three and joined up with her parents' take action, employed in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker pubs. Behind a strong-willed and 3rd party family life, with an focus on music and imaginative ability, was also instability, misuse, and trauma. At time 15 Jewel was accepted into the renowned Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where she began writing her own melodies as a way of manifestation. She was 18, homeless, and living out of her car in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of 1 of her melodies. It was requested in the top-10 countdown, something unheard of for an unsigned artist. By time 21, her debut record went multiplatinum. There is so much more to Jewel's storyline, one complicated by family and financial woes, by crippling fear and insecurity, by parents who forced a kid to grow up much too quickly, and by the outstanding circumstances where she became a world-famous performer and songwriter. Here Jewel displays how she survived and exactly how writing melodies, poetry, and prose have saved her life often over. She writes amazingly about the natural miracles of Alaska, about pain and childhood injury, and about exploring her own id years after the complete world had discovered the beauty of her melodies.
