In this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, the '90s folk icon (born Jewel Kilcher) opens up about ... Jewel moved off her family's homestead at age 15 and into a cabin of her own.

Who wants that?" When the singer was 8, her mother, Lenedra Carroll, left the family, and Jewel and her two brothers were raised by their father Atz Kilcher (a star on Discovery's Alaska ...