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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...