Career
Jewel Blanch was born in 1958 the daughter of Arthur and Berice Blanch. At the age of three, she appeared on the Coca Cola TV Show on Channel 9 in Brisbane singing and playing her own ukulele. In 1962 The Blanch Family were signed to W&G label in Melbourne where they recorded a song written for Jewel "I Wanta Stay on Jumbo" and a duet with her father "On Accounts I Love You". "Jumbo" was an instant success and became a national hit. In 1963, the Blanch family moved to the United States where she started school, before returning in 1965. At the age of eight, Jewel was contracted to EMI and recorded songs on the HMV Label. In 1969 the family moved back to the USA. She appeared as terminally-ill singer Abbie Singleton in 'The Young Doctors' in late 1976. In 1978, Blanch recorded for RCA after Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson heard her singing "Will I Ever Be Loved". In 1979 she won the USA Billboard Magazine's Country Music Award for Number One New Female Singles Artist. In 1979, the family moved back home to Australia. At the 1982 CMAA, Jewel and her father Arthur won Album of the Year for ''The Lady and the Cowboy'' and Jewel also won Best Female Vocalist with her own composition "I Can Love You". In 1984 Jewel and her husband moved to Nashville to live and opened a management and publishing company called Ten Ten.Discography
Albums
Singles
Awards
Country Music Awards of Australia
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