Jewel's love of poetry took root at an early
age. Her mother taught the three children about art, poetry,
and music. "Through those lessons, I was given a tool," says
Jewel. "After my parents got divorced, I started writing
poetry a lot because I didn't always know how to express
myself.
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Kilcher spent her junior and senior years of
high school at Michigan's Interlochen Fine Arts Academy on a
vocal scholarship. It was at Interlochen, in her senior
year, that Jewel took up the guitar and first began to write
songs.
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