Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 328th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most respected, popular,

and influential singer-songwriters of the last quarter century. She is a rare talent, often likened to

Joni Mitchell, who burst onto the scene 25 years ago with her debut album, Pieces of You,

which went 12 times Platinum on the back of hit singles like Who Will Save Your Soul, You Were Meant for Me, and Foolish Games.

And her subsequent 11 albums have included other high charting tunes spanning the genres of music, such as

hands, intuition, and stronger women.

An artist who has sold more than 30 million albums and accumulated four Grammy nominations, Jewel

Kulture, better known as Jewel. A New York Times critic in 1996 wrote, quote,

Jule's voice can be a sultry alto, a clear soprano, a country whoop, a little girl whisper,

or a speedy yodle, and her songs are lucid and articulate.

With unabashed earnestness, she confesses her desire or preaches lessons

and empathy. She can spin out metaphors, tell unadorned stories, or come up with choruses like,

I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way or I'll never trust my

pink fleshy heart to a carnivore close quote and in 2015 Rolling Stone noted that her music, quote,

carved out a confessional coffee house niche

between the decline of grudge and the rise of the slinky pop princess, close quote.

Over the course of our conversation, the 45-year-old and I discussed her remarkable journey

from a homestead in Alaska to homelessness in San Diego to household name.

The stories behind her greatest hits.

How mindfulness, the subject of Robert Beamer's new documentary, The Mindfulness Movement,

for which Jewel and Depak Chopra served as executive producers and which is now available for streaming,

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