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Jewel with the work Heart of the Ocean.
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Jewel’s new single, “Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love,” from her forthcoming album, is out Thursday, April 16<\/p>\n
The four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter opens up to PEOPLE about love, dating, her beliefs and hopes for the future<\/p>\n
Also a painter, Jewel teases her upcoming art exhibition Matriclysm: An Archaeology of Connections Lost, which opens in Venice on May 6 and runs through Nov. 22<\/p>\n
A recent lunch with Jewel<\/a> begins, fittingly, with a small act of care.<\/p>\n The “Who Will Save Your Soul” singer makes sure there is plenty of food \u2014 glazed ribs, chicken salad and more \u2014 for an interview with this PEOPLE reporter at a West Hollywood hotel. It’s a quiet, telling prelude to a conversation about nurturance, and how rarely the world makes space for it.<\/p>\n For Jewel, 51, that instinct \u2014 toward care, toward reflection \u2014 has become both subject and medium. Her latest creative chapter includes a new single, an evolving body of visual art and a philosophical inquiry into what she calls \u201cthe feminine principle.\u201d Not femininity as aesthetic, but as action: the ability to nurture, to connect and to remain in relationship with others, with the self, even with discomfort.<\/p>\n Jewel with one of her pieces from her upcoming art exhibit. \u201cI started asking myself, what does femininity actually mean in my life?\u201d she says. \u201cWhat does it mean in my relationship with my mother, with my son, with the earth? And how have I divorced myself in my own life from the ability to nurture or to be nurtured?\u201d<\/p>\n The question is deceptively simple. The answer, she suggests, is not. In her view, modern life has eroded our capacity to sustain relationships, replacing curiosity with certainty, dialogue with division.<\/p>\n “We’re not great at nurturing relationships with our community or with people we don’t agree with,” she says.<\/p>\n She touches on that in her new single<\/a> “Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love,” a song that feels less like a traditional release and more like an emotional thesis. Love, in Jewel’s telling, is not a fixed destination but a destabilizing force, one that reshapes identity in ways both ecstatic and painful.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are changed by the people we love,\u201d she says, her voice catching slightly. \u201cIt almost makes me cry. It’s that powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n Jewel poses with a portrait of her son Kase (left) and a self-portrait (right). And yet, in her own life, romantic love has taken a quieter role. After meeting rodeo star Ty Murray in 1999<\/a>, and after nearly a decade together, they tied the knot in the Bahamas. In July 2014 the couple announced their divorce,<\/a> and the singer says she fell into a major depression while navigating being a single mom to their son Kase<\/a>, 14. Since then, she’s found fulfillment elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cIt hasn’t been a big priority,\u201d she says of finding a romantic partner. \u201cI love my life. I love running my house. I love making my own shots.\u201d She pauses, then adds with a giggle, \u201cBut I’d be open to it.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s not a rejection of love, she says,, but a reframing. Where once romance might have been centered, now it exists alongside a broader, more expansive definition that includes friendship, community and self-trust. \u201cI don’t feel empty without it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n “I really am in love with my life,” she continues. “And not to say that love couldn’t come into that, but yeah, it’s not something where I feel like I’m searching it or I’m not whole without it. I mean, falling in love is such a consuming thing. Did it save me? I don’t know.”<\/p>\n That perspective is rooted in experience. Jewel speaks candidly about the contradictions of her early career \u2014 which began more than three decades ago \u2014 and about navigating a music industry that often demanded more than talent. \u201cI’ve paid the price of people not paying me because I wouldn’t have sex with them,\u201d she says. \u201cWe live in a pretty predatory world.\u201d<\/p>\n Those experiences, along with a lifelong negotiation with body image, inform her art’s sharper edges through her new collection called Matriclysm: An Archaeology of Connections Lost at the Salone Verde in Venice, Italy runs May 6 to Nov. 22. In one piece, she references the overlooked and often disturbing history of women’s medicine and birth control in which she’s painted herself floating with an IUD.<\/p>\n Jewel at work on her art. At the center of the exhibition is Heart of the Ocean, an eight-foot kinetic sculpture that transforms real-time ocean data into sound and light \u2014 turning nature itself into a living instrument.<\/p>\n A painting from Jewel’s series ‘Matriclysm: An Archeology of Connections Lost.’![\"Jewel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/90bdcd9b258a0b65b79a27f5a1158a2b.jpeg\"\/)
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