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 ...

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 ...

Jill Sobule, singer of 1995 hit tracks “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel,” has died at the age of 66. Sobule died early Thursday morning in a house fire, according to a statement from her ...

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 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 ...

The video might have helped push the song to its Number 67 Billboard Hot 100 peak and, alas, it also pushed towards dismissing Sobule as a gimmick. I mean, c’mon: Co-starring male model/romance ...

Jill was definitely not like anyone you’ve ever met. I know that in itself is a cliche You’re going hear all those things like about marching to her own drum. But when I say she’s the only ...

The entertainment world has lost one of its own — Jill Sobule has died at the age of 66. Per BBC, Sobule’s manager, John Porter, shared that the late artist was a “force of nature and human ...

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 ...

She had been scheduled to perform songs from an autobiographical musical she wrote. By Hank Sanders Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose gay anthem “I Kissed a Girl” and hit ...

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 ...

An investigation has been launched to determine if singer Jill Sobule passed away before the house fire that took her life. The ’90s icon — known for her 1995 anthem “I Kissed a Girl ...