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Jewel Kitcher was born on May 23, 1974
in Payson, Utah and was raised on an 800 acre homestead farm in Homer, Alaska. Jewel's parents were a singer/songwriter duo that toured together around the state. Jewel started touring with her father Atz and mother Lenedra around age six, singing folk music in bars and clubs throughout Alaska.

Jewel's junior and senior years of high school were spent at Interlochen Fine Arts Academy in Michigan, funded primarily by a vocal scholarship. After high school, Jewel came to San Diego to stay with her mom.

Jewel worked a variety of jobs including waitressing. Eventually she decided that working unfulfilling dead-end jobs was definitely not the way she wanted to live. She moved into her VW van, and her and her mother began touring along the California coast, seeking places for Jewel to showcase her singing and songwriting talents. She soon started performing to sparse crowds at a coffeehouse in Pacific Beach called the In...