American record producer, composer and visual artist born on 1974-05-31 in Houston, Texas, but started out in Portland, Oregon (USA). He is a multi-instrumentalist who is known for using all-analog equipment. He has been recording and releasing records since the mid-1990s. Jewel owns and operates his own record label called [l88894]. He is a member of multiple bands on the label, including
Glass Candy (along with vocalist
Ida No),
Chromatics (along with
Ruth Radelet,
Adam Miller, and
Nat Walker),
Desire (with
Megan Louise and
Nat Walker), and
Symmetry (with
Nat Walker). As a composer, Jewel is widely known for his contribution to the film Drive (2011), as well as scoring the A&E crime drama series Those Who Kill (2014) and actor
Ryan Gosling's 2015 directorial debut, Lost River. Jewel has been sampled by
Schoolboy Q,
Jarvis Cocker, and
Kid Cudi.