Jill Sobule, singer of iconic ’90s anthems ‘I Kissed a Girl’ and ‘Supermodel,’ dead at 66 in house fire

C&L's Late Night Music Club With Jill Sobule 'I Kissed A Girl'

I'm sad to report that singer, songwriter and activist Jill Sobule has passed away in a house fire on Friday. She is credited with performing the first openly gay-themed song that cracked the Billboard Top 20. Jill Sobule, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter and activist whose 1995 song “I Kissed a Girl” is widely considered the first openly gay-themed song to crack the Billboard Top 20, died in a Minneapolis house fire early Thursday morning, …

Star '90s Singer Passes Away In House Fire

An uncontrolled blaze that swept away a Minneapolis house last week claimed the life of a 1990s pop star whose meteoric hit single helped define the radio waves of her generation. Jill Sobule, singer of the groundbreaking hit “I Kissed a Girl,” was the only victim in a house fire that sparked early Thursday morning. She was 66. “I Kissed a Girl” is viewed within the music industry as the first openly gay anthem to make it big, landing in the Bil…

Underdog glorious: a personal remembrance of Jill Sobule (1959-2025) - Philadelphia Gay News

I’ve always prided myself on being the kind of music consumer who purchased music on impulse. When I stumbled across “Things Here Are Different,” Jill Sobule’s 1990 MCA Records debut album on vinyl in a favorite Chicago record store, I bought it without knowing anything about her. This was at a time when we didn’t have our phones in our pockets to search for information about the artist on the internet. The LP stayed in my collection until, as v…

Iconic singer killed in fire at 66. Here’s what we know

Jill Sobule, a singer/songwriter who rose to fame in the mid-90s for her work on the “Clueless” soundtrack, has died.

’90s pop music star dead in house fire at 66: She was ‘a force of nature’

The death took place Thursday in Minnesota, a publicist confirmed.

Jill Sobule, Musician of Same-Sex Anthem ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dies at 66

Jill Sobule, a singer and songwriter who found inspiration in social commentary such as a satirical jab at beauty obsessions with “Supermodel” and the hit “I Kissed a Girl” that became a same-sex anthem, died May 1 in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota. She was 66.