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A YOUNG WOMEN'S GUIDE TO BEING A
ROCK CHICK
Your six steps to becoming a diva - from the women who've been there (and back). By Sarah Bailey
1.KNOW THYSELF
Jewel
'I'm just thankful I was at a certain place in my life before I got signed,' says Jewel,
Alaska's prettiest export and positively the grooviest folk momma since Joni Mitchell.
Claiming worldly maturity by the age of 18 may sound a teensy bit bratty, but as Jewel
points out, she'd already 'lived quite a lot of life' - growing up without electricity,
waitressing to rednecks - before she set up home...in her car.
'I'd been goofing around writing poems, just for fun. It wasn't something that I'd meant
for the world to hear,' she explains sweetly of the naive little ditties on Pieces Of
You (her first album, it just happened to sell 10 million). Now she's 24, there's
another album, Spirit, and even a role in Ang Lee's new movie To Live On.
'It's a hard business if you do it for the wrong reasons. But if you do it because you
have to and because you love music, then passion will carry you through.' Let us now wave
lighters and give thanks.
The other five "divas" in the article were Skin (Skunk Anansie), Chrissie Hynde, Sheryl Crow,
Dolores O'Riordan and Charlotte Hatherley (Ash).
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