Jill Sobule, the singer of the groundbreaking 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl,” has tragically died. The musician and songwriter perished in a Minneapolis, Minnesota, house fire early Thursday ...

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 ...

According to her publicist David Elkin and manager John Porter, the 66-year-old singer-songwriter died in a house fire in Woodbury, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota on Thursday. A statement issued ...

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl” was the rare pop song of that era to take an openly queer theme into the cultural mainstream, died Thursday. She was 66.

WOODBURY, Minn. — Award-winning singer and human rights activist Jill Sobule died in a house fire in Woodbury on Thursday morning, according to her media team. Jill Sobule was best known for her ...

She wrote the first openly gay-themed song ever to crack the Billboard Top 20. Jill Sobule, a singer-songwriter best known for her 1995 single “I Kissed a Girl,” has died in a house fire in ...

She first joined PEOPLE in 2025 as a Night Digital News Writer. Frazer Harrison/Getty Jill Sobule, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter of the 1995 hit song "I Kissed a Girl," has died in a house ...

Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter behind songs “Supermodel” and “I Kissed a Girl,” has died at the age of 66. Her team announced that the musician had died in a house fire in Woodbury ...

Jill Sobule, the singer behind the 1995 hit “I Kissed A Girl,” has died. She was 66. She passed away following a fire at her Minneapolis home on Thursday, her rep told Variety. The hitmaker ...