 | Who Will Save Your Soul?Jewel |
Writer(s): Jewel Kilcher (see lyrics here) Released: April 23, 1996 First Charted: May 4, 1996 Peak: 11 BB, 4 BA, 7 CB, 2 GR, 3 RR, 29 AC, 5 A40, 11 AA, 4 MR, 52 UK, 7 CN, 27 AU, 8 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 38.17 video, 58.12 streaming |
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About the Song:Jewel Kilcher was born in 1974 in Utah but raised in Alaska where she sang and yodeled with her father, Atz Kilcher. She got a partial scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan when she was fifteen. She studied operatic voice and started writing and performing at clubs and coffeehouses in San Diego, California, after she graduated. She lived in her car for a time.” W-J In 1993, Jewel was discovered by Inga Vainshtein, a Vice President of Productions at Paramount. Inga became Jewel’s manager and launched a bidding war that ended up in a deal with Atlantic Records. Jewel released her first album, Pieces of You, in 1995 when she was 21 years old. Some of the songs were recorded at the Innerchange, a coffeehouse in San Diego where Jewel performed., while others were recorded at Neil Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch studio in Redwood City, California. W-P Some of the songs, such as “Who Will Save Your Soul?,” were re-recorded for radio release. In fact, the original version never appeared on Pieces of You. The song was released as a single more than a year after the album dropped. It finally broke the door open for Jewel. She wrote “Soul” when she was sixteen and busking during a hitchhiking trip in Mexico. She saw numerous people who appeared as if they were waiting to be saved and the idea for the song was born. SF Billboard’s Larry Flick said, “Amid a spare setting of strumming guitars, twinkling piano lines, and playful percussion, she comes off a tad like Joan Osborne, but with less earthy grit and more girlish glee.” BB The Song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Resources:
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