Spirit - Jewel

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend. (A quote from her album) Jewel is one of my favourite singers. Her full name is Jewel Kilcher but use Jewel as her stage name. She is s an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide, and almost twenty million in the United States alone. All this from a girl who grew up quite poor and at one time lived in her car when she was just starting out doing gigs. I would definitely say that she is way more famous in the US than here. I don't really think I have ever heard any of her stuff here as it ...  Read the complete review

The Alaskan solo singer, Jewel, has evolved at a rate resembling a cheetah both in musical style and lyrics over the gap between her last album and this. The ingénue who set the music world alight in 1995 with her debut album, Pieces of You, is back and the contrast between her first album, which consisted primarily of songs Jewel had written several years before, some of them dating back to her days as a free- spirited waif living in a van on the beach in San Diego, and this, her second, is all to obvious. Now, at 25, she's become a sort of guru for self-expression and full disclosure with her latest book of poetry, A Night Without Armour, gaining both critical ...  Read the complete review