When the singer was 8, her mother, Lenedra Carroll, left the family, and Jewel and her two brothers were raised by their father Atz Kilcher (a star on Discovery's Alaska: The Last Frontier ...

Jewel Kilcher (known as Jewel), 42, is a singer-songwriter who has sold more than 30 million albums and is the author of five books, including “Never Broken” (Blue Rider), a memoir.

Born Jewel Kilcher, the nearly 50-year-old singer-songwriter ... and her dad moved Jewel and her two brothers to the homestead in Homer. The stress of single parenthood and his own abusive ...