Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, whose hits included the satirical anthem Supermodel from the Clueless film soundtrack and the groundbreaking single I Kissed A Lady, died early on Thursday (Could 1) in a Minneapolis-area home hearth, media shops reported. She was 66.
Her supervisor John Porter confirmed her demise in a press release to Minnesota Star Tribute.
Based on her web site, Sobule had been as a result of carry out on Friday in her native Denver to showcase songs from her autobiographical stage musical F*** seventh Grade, which was nominated in 2023 for a Drama Desk Award.
Sobule was remembered for a various physique of music that ranged from deeply intimate to socially acutely aware themes in a recording profession that spanned a dozen albums beginning in 1990 along with her Todd Rungren-produced debut assortment Issues Right here Are Completely different.
Her eponymous 1995 album included two of her greatest hits, Supermodel from the Hollywood coming-of-age comedy movie Clueless, and I Kissed A Lady, broadly considered the primary brazenly LGBTQ-themed track to crack the Billboard Prime 20 singles chart. It peaked at No 20 that yr.
The track drew renewed consideration in 2008 when Katy Perry launched a distinct single of her personal with the identical title.
Authorities in Woodbury, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, are investigating the reason for the hearth on the home the place Sobule was discovered, the Star Tribune reported.
