Jewel is a singer and performer, but she’s a mom first. As a girl who traveled with her dad as a child for performances, she is carrying on the tradition with her 10-year-old son, Kase, who will be going on tour with her this year.
She tells TODAY, “Kase is going to play. He plays drums. So I’m really excited that he’ll get to tour with me. It’s going to make me enjoy touring again…We’ve toured a little bit, not a whole ton. We’ve always had my whole family out, so this will be just he and I.”
The revelation came on the red carpet for new show, “American Song Content” in which Jewel represents her home state of Alaska. Participants of the show includes 56 artists from 50 states, U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. and are all competing to win the country’s Best Original Song.
While Jewel is already a well-established artist, the show opened up a big opportunity for her to focus on motherhood. She tells TODAY, “a lot of women don’t talk about what it’s like to not only be a woman as you grow and age in the music business, but to be a mom. It’s hard to find opportunities that don’t make me go on tour for two years.”
She continues, “This show really checks the box of, hey, it’s supporting songwriters (and) I’m a huge ‘Eurovision’ fan. But it let me be a mom without going on tour for a year. And (it) lets me do a really popular show, have my son with me on the weekend and go home and still be a mom.”
Jewel’s tour will kick off Jun. 8 in Mansfield, MA and ends Aug. 6 in Denver. It looks like Kase and his mom are going to have one heck of an amazing summer!
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