Jill Sobule in 2023.
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Jill Sobule, who raised the eyebrows with his cheeky hymn of 1995 “I Kissa a Girl”, died. According to his publicist David Elkin and the director of John Porter, the 66-year-old singer-songwriter died in a house fire in Woodbury, a suburb of St. Paul, in Minnesota on Thursday.
A statement Emitted by Woodbury Public Safety Department on Facebook said that when the first speakers arrived at home early in the morning, it was swallowed up in flames. A woman in sixties was found dead inside the property. The authorities investigate the cause of the fire.
Sobule stayed with friends in Minn. Before going to his hometown of Denver to perform songs from his autobiographical comedy F * CK 7th year Friday. Instead, the place in which it was to occur, Swallow Hill Musicorganized an informal rally in his memory.
“Jill Sobule was a force of nature whose music is woven in our culture,” said Porter. “I hope that his music, memory and heritage will continue to live and inspire others.”
The actor and actor Margaret Cho, who produced and appeared in the video of the Sobule piece in 2009 “San Francisco” and was a friend of the musician, shared his response to the death of the artist in a Instagram Post Thursday. “It’s not real for me,” said Cho. “I’m in shock and I can’t treat this.”
Sobule’s confessional songs sparkle irony and humor and often told stories. His hit “Supermodel” appeared in the 1995 film Distraught And she even wrote once a song at the request of NPR. His performance accompanied by the guitar of “Philosophy 101” on Well -considered In 2009, the words included: “I am who I am today / Philosophy 101 / Before the course, we would all get high / philosophy 101 / We think we are / I think here on NPR.”
But the single of which Sobule is the best known is “I kissed a girl”. By telling with the ironic humor an appointment between two women, the single reached 67 on the Display panel Hot 100 And was one of the first openly gay hymns. In an interview in 2021 with the Gay News PhiladelphiaSobule, who identified himself as bisexualremembered his first big meeting with record leaders for his eponymous album in 1995. “They said:” We have already had Tracy Chapman and Melissa Etherridge. Thank God, we finally have a right songwriter. “It scared me,” she said. In 2018 interview With NPR, she added: “Always to this day, I have people who say:” This song has meant a lot for me by growing up in Alabama. “”
“Jill Sobule was not only a pioneer of music – she was a beacon for queer artists,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and chief executive online online statement. “Long before he was sure or common, Jill wrote and sang on sexuality and identity with raw honesty and a spirit.
Sobule has never reached the same level of commercial success after “I Kissa a Girl” and “Supermodel”.
After having been abandoned by various record companies, including MCA and Atlantic, and some independent labels with which she worked went bankrupt, Sobule became a first pioneer of financed music when she decided to go to fans to get help to produce music. Sobule collected nearly $ 89,000 to finance his album California years.
Born in Denver, Sobule started playing battery at the age of five. “I was in love with Ringo Starr,” she told NPR in a 2018 interview. “And then in a way my parents convinced me that the guitar was a much more pleasant instrument.” She quickly took the instrument. “I was a shredder from the start,” she said.
It was during a trip with friends to Spain that she was invited to play in a nightclub after her owner heard her busking in the streets. She abandoned the university and started playing music professionally. Sobule launched his recording career in 1990, with the release of the album Things here are different.
Sobule released 12 albums during his career and was frank on a variety of social issues such as anorexia, the Maga movement and gay and reproductive rights.
According to a statement Shared by his direction, Sobule is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, his nephews and his cousins.
An official memorial celebrating the life and inheritance of Sobule is later scheduled for this summer.
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