What are the details of foreign female singer Pearl?

Jewel Kilcher (English: Jewel Kilcher,1May 23, 974-) is an American singer, composer, guitarist, actor and poet. She has been nominated for Grammy Awards four times, and her albums have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide.

Pearl's debut album "Your Fragments" was released on February 28th 1995, which became one of the highest-selling albums of the first album in history, setting a platinum record of 15 times. A single from this album, Who Will Save Your Soul, ranked 1 1 on Billboard Hot1. The other two singles "You were born for me" and "Stupid Game" also ranked second and seventh in the billboard Top 100 singles list respectively, and were included in the billboard 1997 singles list at the end of the year. Pearl blended many musical genres in her musical career. Total Clarity is her first country music album, which was released by Valory Music Company in 2008. For the first time, this album ranked 1 in the hottest country album on American billboard, among which three famous singles were Stronger Woman, I Do, and Until I Feel Like Cooking. In May 2009, Pearl released her first independent album "Lullaby".

Pearl was born in Payson, Utah. Shortly after their birth, the Pearl family moved to Homer, Alaska. Pearl's grandfather. Yule Koelsch is a Swiss living in the United States, a representative of Alaska's Constitutional Convention and a state legislator. Yule also set a record for crossing the Harding ice sheet for the first time. Pearl inherited Swiss descent from her grandfather. She is the cousin of the actress Q 'orianka Keltsch. She spent most of her teenage years in Homer's epic. She lives with her father Atz Keltsch. The house where she lives has no water supply system. Instead, it is a simple outdoor toilet. She and her father sometimes make a living by singing in bars and pubs. It is these experiences that made her learn to sing suddenly, and the true and false sounds alternate. Many of her songs have this feature. Her father is a modern saint, but shortly before Pearl was eight years old, she and her father stopped going to church.

Pearl studied guitar at the Trocken Art Institute in Trocken, Michigan. Her major is opera singing. /kloc-started writing songs at the age of 0/6. At school, she sometimes sings at Ray's Cafe in travers, Michigan.

Pearl was once trapped by poverty, lived in her caravan and performed some jazz performances and street art all over the United States. Pearl won some praise for her singing at the Innerchange Cafe and Java Joe in San Diego, California. Ruben, the band of her friend Steve Boltz, also performed here. Later, Pearl and Boltz co-wrote some songs, including You were born for me. (Boltz appeared in the second famous MTV of this song. ) 1997, Rugburns band participated in Pearl's tiny light tour. On the spiritual tour of Pearl 1999, Boltz appeared as a guitarist in the Pearl Band.

Personal life

On August 7th, 2008, Pearl and Ty Murray, a cowboy who won nine world rodeo championships, tied the knot after falling in love for ten years. 201111The couple announced the birth of their first child, which was later confirmed to be a boy. 1 1 March11,Pearl was in a car accident on her way back to Stephensonville, Texas, but she was only slightly injured.

Music Career

early stage

1993, Mike Bazzarri (famous for red hot chili peppers) met Pearl, who had seen her sing in a coffee shop. They went back to her convertible and stayed together all night. Pearl gave him some songs. He described her voice as "beautiful" and "exciting". She described his voice as "gentle and affectionate".

1In August, 993, John Hogan, the lead singer of a local band called Rust in San Diego, called Inga Feinstein and told her that a female singer sang in a local cafe every Thursday, so Inga feinstein discovered Pearl. Weinstein and a representative of Atlantic Records drove to the Innerchange coffee shop. After the performance, they called Danny Goldberg, the head of Atlantic Records West Coast Company. At this point, Pearl doesn't even have a sample record. Goldberg offered to fund Pearl to record some songs. [Source Request] Former filmmaker Vainshtein became Pearl's agent, trying to get the record company to offer Pearl a generous price. Therefore, Pearl signed a contract with Atlantic Records and was invited to be the cover of Time magazine. This is the first time that an artist from Atlantic Records has become the cover of Time. [23] Her first studio record was recorded with Bruce Rob, who produced, planned and mixed her sample records. 19 years old, Pearl recorded her first album Your Fragments, which was released in 1995. Pearl recorded the album in a studio on a farm in neil jan, and the recording of the album was supported by the neil jan band "Wandering Crocodiles". The band also played for neil young's two albums Harvest and Harvest Moon. Ben Keith produced the album Your Fragments. Ben Keith is a Hawaiian guitarist in The Wandering Crocodile. Some songs of this album are played live at the Innerchange coffee shop in San Diego. This album stayed on the Billboard Top 200 album list for two years, ranking fourth at the highest. The album also includes popular singles What Do You Mean to Me, Who Will Save Your Soul and Stupid Games. The final sales of this album exceeded120,000 copies in the United States alone.

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In 2000, Pearl sang for the American army.

1998 1 10 In the opening ceremony of the 32nd Super Bowl held in San Diego, Pearl was invited to sing home of the brave. When introducing Zhu, the host of the opening ceremony called her "the pearl of San Diego itself!" However, she was later criticized for lip-synching electronic recordings. People obviously noticed that Pearl missed the entrance cue, and the first few words of this song didn't lip-synch. Therefore, the producers of the Super Bowl admitted that they did try to get all the performers to record their voices in advance. In the 2003 NBA Finals, Pearl sang "home of the brave" again in the home game of the New Jersey Nets.

1February, 998, Pearl parted ways with her first agent Inga Weinstein. At that time, she was discussing her second album with Daniel Ranos. However, after ending the cooperation with Vainshtein and handing over the management of her career to her mother, she suddenly changed her creative direction and replaced Ranois with Patrick Leonard. Patrick Leonard made an album with a more pop music style. 1998, the album Spirit was released. This album ranked third on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and sold more than 4 million copies in the United States. The single "Hand" ranks sixth in the billboard Top 100 singles list. She immediately released other singles: the new version of Jupiter (Swallowing the Moon), the theme song of the upcoming movie starring Pearl, Simple is Real, and the charity single Unknown Life.

One year later, in June 1999 1 1, Pearl released the album Joy: A Holiday Collection. The album sold more than 6.5438+0 million copies, ranking 32nd on the Billboard Top 200 album list. She used the album's single "Joy to the World" as the cover of this album.

200 1 1 1, the album like this was released. This album ranks ninth on the billboard top 200 album list, with sales exceeding 6,543,800+5,000 copies in the United States. Pearl won the top 30 American singers with her single "Stand still". Other singles include Break Me, This Way, Serve Me, etc. With these singles, Pearl won the first place in the club for the first time.

Album 0304

In 2003, Pearl released the album 0304. In the annotation on the album cover, she wrote, "I want to make a record that interprets the music of big bands in a modern way." This record should be expressed by lyrics, just like cole potter, and there should be a lot of swing music. I am very grateful to Lester, because when I told him that I was going to make a record mixed with dance, urban music and folk songs, he looked at me and didn't think anything was wrong with me. Self-service is not a success. After that, Pearl released her single intuition and began to turn to songs with more emphasis on pop music. This single, different from the folk style in which she used to use only one guitar as an instrument, began to use the French accordion as an instrument, and tried to make the beat of dance music and pop music with an electronic synthesizer. This single was a success, ranking 5th and 20th on the Billboard Adult Pop Music List and Billboard Top 100 Singles List respectively. Although different voices are used, the lyrics of this song are similar to her previous works. It mentioned many cultures, including pop star jennifer lopez, model Kate Moss, magazines, film culture and commercialism.

The album Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

On May 2nd, 2006, Pearl released her sixth album Goodbye Alice in Wonderland. Although people have different views on this album, it still ranks eighth on the billboard album chart. This album sold 82,000 copies in the first week after its release. The main single "Time and Time again" was a success in the top 40 adult radio stations, with the highest 16. The second single "Good Days" was broadcast on the radio in late June, ranking 30th in the adult pop charts. Yahoo! MTV of her next single "Stephensville, Texas" appeared at the press conference. [33] After filming her farm in Texas, Pearl decided to let photographer Kurt Marcus shoot MTV for the song Goodbye Alice in Wonderland. A commentary in the business magazine Market Wire said that due to the extensive publicity of the Pearl PR team, "this family video clip perfectly reflects the original sound of this song and its story with strong autobiographical style."

By the end of June, 2006, 5438+February, this album had only sold more than 270,000 copies, making it the first record of Pearl that failed to sell gold records. Timothy Duggan, a music critic of CMT, praised the album, saying, "This album shows Pearl's unique talent as a lyric poet and her growth in musical talent. If Pearl had the knowledge of music that she has now, Your Fragments would have been the success of this single. All in all, this single is very satisfying. " [36] However, Rolling Stone said that the album was "over-produced and immature". If there are five stars in total, it can only be rated as two. [37] So far, the album has sold just over 377,000 copies.

Pearl released the music video of the new song "Looking for Love", which is the title song in the movie "Arthur and the Invisible Man". This song can only be found in the audio tape of the movie Arthur and His Mini Kingdom, which was released in June 5438 +2007 10. [38]

[Editor] Album "Very Clear"

On June 5438+1early October, 2007, Pearl and Zhan Sen Michael Carroll recorded a duet "Nothing Good in Goodbye", which is a special single of Carroll's duet CD "Waiting in the Country". Pearl also appeared in the yellow pages of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Bureau in Boston. As an advertisement, she sang on the moving subway train and then held an hour-long concert at South Station. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Pearl confirmed that she no longer belongs to a record company, and also confirmed the rumor that Atlantic Records refused to renew her contract despite the poor sales of her latest record. She also hinted that she wanted to make a country music album for her next album. [39] She and the famous Da&; Ricky's John Ritchie cooperation. He said she was "probably one of the greatest American singers and composers of all time". He also said that "every record company in Nashville" tried to persuade her to sign the contract. [40]

In June 2007, Pearl signed a contract with Valory Music Company, a newly established division of an independent big machine record company. [4 1] Her first country music album Perfect Clear was released on June 3rd, 2008, and sold 48,000 copies in the first week. This album ranks 1 and 8 in the billboard country music album list and the billboard top 200 album list respectively. [42] The album in the second week dropped to 25th and 5th respectively in the Billboard Top 200 album list and the Billboard country music album list, and the sales volume in the second week is expected to be 75,000. [Source Request]

On June 65438+1October 65438+July 2008, the album's main single "Stronger Woman" was broadcast on NBC and entered the top 20 of billboard's top country songs. On April 26th, 2008, it ranked 13 in the 2008 country music charts. On June 23, 2008, the next single "I do" was broadcast on the radio. MTV of this single is starring her husband Ty Murray. This single ranked 28th at the highest. Secondly, Tillit feels like cooking, ranking 57th. [Source Request]

In late May 2009, Complete Clarity was released in Australia. In June 2009, Humphrey Records released this album in Europe. The album released in Europe also includes the music video of "Strong Woman". [Source Request]

[Editor] Album "Lullaby"

In 2009, Pearl was at Yahoo. The interview in the release.

In early 2009, Pearl announced the release of a new MTV album called "Lullaby", which is a collection of lullabies. Pearl said that this album "is not only dedicated to children, but also to adults". In March of the same year 17, the album's main single "Somewhere Above the Rainbow" was included in iTunes. This album was released on May 5th of the same year. The week the album was released, Somewhere Above the Rainbow ranked first in the best children's songs list. She also recorded a video with R&; B singer Thales' duet also released his comedy "Mayhem". This song is called "Let it last". This song was originally intended to be used in the soundtrack of the movie Transformers: The Battle of Revenge, but it did not appear in the soundtrack list in the end. [43]

[Editor] Album "Sweet and Wild"

20 10, 1 June, Pearl released the album Stay Here Forever, which was the soundtrack of the movie Valentine's Day. It is also the title song of the ninth TV music album "Sweet and Wild" released by Pearl 20 10 on June 8. [44] After its first release, this single ranked 48th in the charts of American pop country songs, and rose to 34th in May of 20 10. 2010 may 17, "satisfaction" was released as the second single of this album, ranking 57th. In June, 10, 10, 10, Pearl released the third single ten of Tian Ye. 20 10, 10, 15, this single first reached the 55th place in the charts of pop country songs, and reached 5 1 two weeks later. She is currently making a children's music album, which adults can also enjoy.

[Editor] Movies and Plays

From 65438 to 0999, Pearl appeared in the film Ride with the Devil directed by Ang Lee. [45] 1995, Pearl played Dorothy in the dream come true version of the Wizard of Oz concert. [46] She also played a supporting role in Walking Hard: The Story of Dewey Cox, playing herself. [Source Request]

[Editor] dancing with the stars

On February 8th, 2009, Pearl made a bet with her husband Ty Murray and announced that she and Demity? Chaplin participated in the eighth season of dancing with the stars. However, five days before the quarterly performance, Pearl suffered a stress fracture in her tibia and was forced to quit the performance. [47]

[Editor] Writing

From 65438 to 0998, Pearl published a poem called Night Without Armor. Although the sales volume of this collection of poems has exceeded 6,543,800+0,000, and it has entered the best-seller list in The New York Times, people have different opinions on it. [48] In an interview with MTV on 1998, Kurt Lauder pointed out that Pearl mistakenly used the word "accident" in her book (the word originally meant "accident"), and Pearl's response was "it's smart to point this out."

In 2000, Pearl went on to write an autobiography called Chasing Dawn, which is a collection of diaries and random thoughts, detailing her growth in Alaska and her efforts to learn skills on the road. [49] Pearl plans to publish a book called Love Poems, which is her third book. This book describes her relationship with her boyfriend Ty Murray in a very private way. The book was cancelled a few months before publication because Pearl was worried that Murray's mother would object to her privacy. [50]

[editor] charity

1995, Pearl performed in the popular musical "The Wizard of Oz Concert: Dreams Come True" at Lincoln Center, which benefited the Children's Defense Foundation. The performance was originally broadcast on TNT, and the CD and video products were released at 1996. [Source Request]

Pearl and her mother Lindera J Carroll and her brother Shane? Koelsch established a non-profit organization called Shane Kilcher Humanitarian Foundation. The organization is committed to education, sustainable development and establishing cooperative relations with similar institutions. [5 1] Pearl donates part of his income to the organization and often holds performances to help the organization. [52] Pearl provided most of the funds for this institution, so this institution is in parallel with Pearl's career. So far, the activities of this institution have decreased. [Source Request]

In September 2006, as a part of Lifetime TV's "Stop Breast Cancer for Life" campaign, Pearl provided more than 6.5438+0.2 million petition signatures to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to pass the 2005 Law on the Protection of Breast Cancer Patients (S 9 10/HR 1849), prohibiting "direct". [53]

Pearl is the honorary chairman of the homeless walk in Washington, D.C. in 2006. [54]

[Edit] Clean water project

From 65438 to 0999, after the clean water project was launched, the main focus of the Better Human Foundation was on clean water in developing countries. Clean water projects are carried out in South America, Central America, India and Africa. The purpose of these projects is to build wells and water filtration systems. One of the projects is to restore the construction of water wells through the action of solar water pumps, thus helping the Maasai people in Sukenia, Tanzania, Africa. Before the clean water project started, villagers had to walk 10 hour to get clean water. Other projects have been carried out in Malakala, India, Guarcha, Honduras, Sisogjic, Mexico and Bangladesh. [55]

[Editor] Water Purification Project: Celebrity Lyrics Auction

From June 5438 to October 2008 10, Pearl began to cooperate with dozens of singers and composers to create and auction their lyric poems, and donated the proceeds from the auction to her "Water Purification Project" charity. Besides Pearl, many singers and composers donated their handwritten lyrics, including Patrick Davis, Randy Owen (band) from Alabama, John Melenkamp and Jan Groom Green Wilson. Most lyric poems are written on paper and signed by composers, except Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl. Many artists not only write lyric poems (and sign their names), but also draw pictures to illustrate their poems. [57][ Dead Chain] This auction activity lasted from 2008 12 to 2008 18, and was jointly promoted by CMT and Virgin Music. [58] Some lyric poems were auctioned publicly, including such a small, stupid game, I am yours, I kissed a girl, the fire of St. elmo, and lived like you were dying. I don't need men and superman (it's). [59] The official closing date of the auction is 65438+February 8, 2008/KLOC-0, and the highest selling price is Pearl's signature song "You were born for me", and the selling price is 1505$[60][ Dead Chain], and the selling prices of "Who will save your soul" and "Hand" are both. [6 1][ Dead Chain] Pearl promises that all the lyrics sold before 12 18 will be delivered before Christmas. [62] After the auction ended on February 8th, 65438, two new poems by Craig Wiseman and Honel Unsworth were auctioned. The auction deadline was 65438+2009 10. [63]

[Edit] Music Records Classification Catalogue

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[Edit] Album

Studio album 1995: Your Fragments

1998: Spirit

1999: Joy: Holiday Series

200 1: "like this"

2003: 0304

2006: Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

2008: Very clear

2009: lullaby

20 10: sweet and wild

20 1 1 year: carousel