Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

â€œJewel is a truth-tellerâ€¦this is a book that lingers in your heart.â€ â€“ BrenÃ© Brown
*The New York Times bestseller*

New York Times bestselling poet and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage, and motherhood.

When Jewelâ€™s first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. Drawing comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with more than thirty million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life, and the lessons learned from her experience and her music.
Â Â Â Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age five, and joined her parentsâ€™ entertainment act, working in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed family life with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, however, there was also instability, abuse, and trauma. At age fifteen, she moved out and tasked herself with a mission: to see if she could avoid being the kind of statistic that her past indicated for her future. Soon after, she was accepted to the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and there she began writing her own songs as a means of expressing herself and documenting her journey to find happiness. Jewel was eighteen and homeless in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of one of her songs and it was requested into the top-ten countdown, something unheard-of for an unsigned artist. By the time she was twenty-one, her debut had gone multiplatinum.
Â Â Â There is much more to Jewelâ€™s story, though, one complicated by family legacies, by crippling fear and insecurity, and by the extraordinary circumstances in which she managed to flourish and find happiness despite these obstacles. Along her road of self-discovery, learning to redirect her fate, Jewel has become an iconic singer and songwriter. In Never Broken she reflects on how she survived, and how writing songs, poetry, and prose has saved her life many times over. She writes lyrically about the natural wonders of Alaska, about pain and loss, about the healing power of motherhood, and about discovering her own identity years after the entire world had discovered the beauty of her songs.
Country USA
Brand Blue Rider Press
Manufacturer Blue Rider Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 24541049
Color White
ReleaseDate 2016-09-20
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780399185724

Country	USA
Brand	Blue Rider Press
Manufacturer	Blue Rider Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	24541049
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2016-09-20
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780399185724

Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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