{"id":67202,"date":"2025-05-02T02:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67202\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:03:14","slug":"i-kissed-a-girl-singer-passes-away-at-66-as-her-tragic-cause-of-death-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67202\/","title":{"rendered":"I Kissed a Girl singer passes away at 66 as her tragic cause of death is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jill Sobule, the singer best known for her groundbreaking 1995 single I Kissed A Girl, has died at 66.<\/p>\n

Sobule tragically perished<\/a> in a house fire in Minneapolis early on Thursday morning, according to Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Firefighters received a call around 5:30 a.m. on Thursday about a fire in Woodbury, Minnesota<\/a>, according to local news reports.<\/p>\n

The home was already engulfed in flames by the time first responders arrived, and the blaze \u2014 whose cause wasn’t immediately known \u2014 is reportedly under investigation.<\/p>\n

Sobule, who also had a song featured in the classic 1995 comedy Clueless, reached number 20 on\u00a0US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks that year with I Kissed A Girl, making it the most-successful openly LGBTQ-themed song up to that point on the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n

Although her fame ebbed over time, she continued to regularly record and release new music in recent years.<\/p>\n

\"Jill <\/p>\n

Jill Sobule, the singer best known for her groundbreaking 1995 single I Kissed A Girl, has died at 66. Sobule tragically perished in a house fire in Minneapolis early on Thursday morning, according to Variety; pictured in March 2023 in Beverly Hills<\/p>\n

\"Sobule's <\/p>\n

Sobule’s song I Kissed A Girl reached number 20 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks in 1995, making it the first openly LGBTQ-themed song to reach hit status; Sobule is pictured in the song’s video<\/p>\n

The performer\u00a0had been scheduled to appear at Swallow Hill Music’s Tuft Theater in Denver, Colorado<\/a> \u2014 her birthplace \u2014 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sobule was slated to perform a show of music from her recent\u00a0autobiographical musical F*** 7th Grade, along with other tunes, but the event will reportedly now be an informal memorial hosted by 105.5 FM host Ron Bostwick, a friend of the late singer.<\/p>\n

Her representative added that a more formal memorial to her life and work will be held this summer.<\/p>\n

Sobule’s manager, John Porter, said in a statement to Variety: ‘Jill Sobule was a force of nature and human rights advocate whose music is woven into our culture. I was having so much fun working with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I lost a client and a friend today,’ he continued. ‘I hope her music, memory, & legacy continue to live on and inspire others.’<\/p>\n

Sobule’s longtime attorney,\u00a0Ken Hertz, also paid tribute to her in a statement.<\/p>\n

‘Jill wasn\u2019t just a client. She was family to us. She showed up for every birth, every birthday, and every holiday,’ he said. ‘She performed at our daughter\u2019s wedding, and I was her “tech” when she performed by Zoom from our living room (while living with us) during the pandemic.’<\/p>\n

Beginning with her 1990 debut, Things Here Are Different, Sobule released an impressive 10 studio albums and two live albums.<\/p>\n

\"Firefighters <\/p>\n

Firefighters got a call around 5:30 a.m. on Thursday about a fire in Woodbury, Minnesota, according to local news reports. The fire, whose cause is unknown, had engulfed the home when first responders arrived and is now being investigated; seen in 1995 in Minneapolis<\/p>\n

\"Beginning <\/p>\n

Beginning with her 1990 debut, Things Here Are Different, Sobule released an impressive 10 studio albums and two live albums; seen January 20 in LA<\/p>\n

She was also featured in a 2003 concert film and released a greatest-hits compilation in 2001, along with several EPs in the 2000s and early 2010s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sobule had multiple projects in the works, included an original cast recording of F*** 7th Grade, which is scheduled for a June 6 release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The acclaimed show was a hit with critics and was named a New York Times Critic Pick before selling out multiple extensions of its original off-Broadway run in 2022.<\/p>\n

The show, which featured the singer performing a mix of new and old songs, was nominated for a Drama Desk award.<\/p>\n

F*** 7th Grade’s original cast album will be released alongside a 30th anniversary reissue of her self-titled sophomore album.<\/p>\n

The original album featured I Kissed A Girl, and subsequent reissues have included her single Supermodel, which was originally featured on the Clueless soundtrack.<\/p>\n

The song \u2014 which Sobule didn’t write, unlike I Kissed A Girl \u2014 was released as the third single from the hit Alicia Silverstone\u2013starring film’s soundtrack in August 1995.<\/p>\n

But unlike her earlier success that year, Supermodel failed to chart in the US, which though it had modest chart success in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Sobule's <\/p>\n

Sobule’s performance for Friday in Denver has been converted into an informal memorial. She was set to release the recording of her autobiographical musical F*** 7th Grade and a 30th anniversary reissue of her self-titled sophomore album on June 6; pictured in 1983<\/p>\n

Sobule \u2014 who identified as bisexual \u2014 wasn’t afraid to touch hot-button issues in her songs, which made the prospect of strong chart showings difficult after her initial successes in the mid-’90s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, she maintained a devoted fan base all throughout her career, and it was thanks to them that she was able to crowdfund the recording of her 2009 LP California Years, even though that funding model was still in its infancy.<\/p>\n

She returned to crowdfunding to finance her 2018 album Nostalgia Kills, which was her last studio album released before her death.<\/p>\n

Aside form her work on record, she also contributed the theme song to the Nickelodeon sitcom Unfabulous, which aired from 2004\u20132007 and starred a young Emma Roberts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sobule is survived by her brother James Sobule and his wife Mary Ellen, as well as by her nephews, Ian Matthew, Robert and his wife Irina.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jill Sobule, the singer best known for her groundbreaking 1995 single I Kissed A Girl, has died at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92,34031,77,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-67202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-emma-roberts","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tvshowbiz","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114435785433421299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}