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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 ...

The music world is mourning a sudden loss. Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter best known for her 1995 single “I Kissed a Girl,” died May 1 in a house fire in Minneapolis at age 66, her rep con ...

WOODBURY, Minn. -- Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter behind 1990s hit songs “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel,” has died. She was 66. Sobule died in a house fire in Woodbury ...

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 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 ...

Jill Sobule, the Denver-born singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant ... who founded Bull & Bush with twin brother, dies For decades, when leaders in metro Denver needed advice, they called ...

Sadly, the music industry lost the talented singer/songwriter on May 1st when Sobule passed away due to a house fire. Given Sobule’s impact on the music industry and the LGBTQ+ community ...

By McKinley Franklin Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter behind “I Kissed a Girl,” the first openly gay track to break into the Billboard Top 20, has died. She was 66. Sobule died Thursday in a ...

Jill Sobule, Denver-born singer-songwriter known for ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ dies in house fire Sobule, who was born in Denver on Jan. 16, 1959, had been booked to play at Swallow Hill Music 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 ...