The treasured Houston jazz and blues vocalist, Jewel Brown passed away on June 25th due to colon cancer and other health problems. She was 86 years old.
Jewel Brown – ‘I Left My World In San Francisco’
Her son Edward Curtis said the following for his mother: “It’s a sentimental moment just thinking back on it, going back to the memories. An old song I remember she sang — it’s probably one of the best things I remember I heard — a song she recorded called ‘Mother’s Love.’ She was always the same person no matter what. Very gentle, straightforward, very much in a lot of ways reminiscent of my grandfather. Mom was never the type of person to flaunt anything,” Curtis said. “She was the same with everybody. … That’s just the way she was.”
Curtis is Brown’s only child and said that the family is still thinking about how to memorialize his mother. He thought a small gathering would do, but with time he realized that his mother would need a larger venue.
Roger Woods, a Houston historian and the author of “Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues” said, “I was stunned to hear.” He had known Brown since the late 1990s. He said the following about her: “I don’t think I took her for granted, but I took her vitality for granted. I just can’t believe it. It’s hard to believe that Jewel Brown has left. She was just a dynamic human being.”
Brown started the blues when she was 9 years old. She performed music from Linda Hopkins and has won a lot of talent shows consistently, and from there she started her show business.
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