Jill Sobule, Singer Behind ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dead at 66

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose “Supermodel” success and the gay anthem “I Kissed A Girl” were followed by three decades of tours, defense and a single -woman musical, died Thursday morning in a house in Woodbury. She was 66 years old.

The Woodbury Public Security Department, a Minneapolis suburb, said firefighters had responded at 5:30 am to a house that was wrapped in flames. The owners said a person was still possible inside. Firefighters found the body of a woman about 60 years inside the house, the department said.

The cause of fire was not clear immediately.

Mrs. Sobule was scheduled to play songs from her woman’s musical, “F*CK7thgrade”, on Friday at Swallow Hill’s music in his hometown, Denver, according to his publicist. He stayed with friends in Minnesota as he was the musical, said the publicist.

Instead, a free and informal meeting will be held in honor of Mrs. Sobula.

In her homonym album of 1995, Mrs. Sobule, who was bisexual, presented “I kissed to Girl”, who tells the story of a woman kissing her friend. The song came out when he was “Dany” to be a queer musician, Mrs. Abule recalled. But he broke into the mainstream, reaching the posters lists.

“Supermodel”, a rebel rock song of the same album, was included in the soundtrack of the romantic “Clueless” comedy and further consolidated the popularity of Mrs. Sobula.

“People call me a wonder of a single success,” Sobule said in a 2022 interview with the New York Times. “And I say:” Wait a second, I am a wonder of two hits! “

His next albums, Genere and Creative, did not reach the same level of conventional success, but received positive critics and fans.

“Now sings about silly boyfriends, women obsessed with weight, Alzheimer’s disease and the failures of a long list of famous people,” the Times wrote in 2000. “With a white and flexible installation for frankness.

Mrs. Sobule was born in Denver. Additional information about your family could not be confirmed immediately. He joked saying that when he grew up, his only roles models that Miss Jane Hathaway had been “The Beverly Hillbillies” and her gymnastics teacher, “that Pete Rose looked like.”

Decades later, he sang about his frustrations in high school in his musical. He described to be called a homophobic insult, feel out of place among the other girls and be in love with a girl.

In eighth grade, her guitar talent begged to be shown, and she may leave school to concentrate on being a musician. The Begen recording race in 1990, when he released the “things here are different”. The radios played their simple, “too great to fall in love.”

In 1995, his homonym album catapulted his career at greater heights. “I Kissed A Girl” returned to the headlines again in 2008, when Katy Perry released a song with the same name. In an interview, Mrs. Sobule later remembered having been “jealous” when Mrs. Perry used the title.

A complete list of survivors was not available immediately.

In addition to acting, it was frank on a variety of political and cultural issues, including the death penalty, anorexia, reproduction, French resistance and LGBTQ problems.

“He literally created a path for queer people and women in music,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president of Glaad, a LGBTQ defense group, in a statement in a statement, in a statement.

In her 2022 interview with the New York Times about her musical, Mrs. Sobule reinforced that her goal was to reach a wide audience of people who felt marginalized.

“We wanted to ensure that the program was only for people interested in my career because most people could give a [expletive]”She said.” I am not so famous. He is the son of this universal story of a weirdo that grows. “

Caryn Ganz Contributed reports.