Jill Sobule, the late singer-songwriter who scored a hit with the queer anthem “I Kissed a Girl” in 1995, will be celebrated this spring with a series of tribute shows around the country dubbed “Jillith Fair — Loving Jill Sobule.” Margaret Cho, John Doe, Tom Morello, Joan Osborne, Lisa Loeb, …
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In mid-March, Jill Sobule arrived at her friend Michelle Lewis’ home in L.A. to write songs with Lewis and her co-writing partner, former Letters to Cleo frontperson Kay Hanley. Calling themselves Sugar Tits, the three had collaborated periodically over the years. As Lewis and Hanley learned right away, Sobule had …
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LGBTQ audiences who wanted visibility in pop culture had it tough for most of 1995, when Morrissey’s “Boy Racer” was about as explicit as things got (“He’s just too good-looking…”). Two years before Ellen DeGeneres came out to a network TV audience of millions, several fresh shoots appeared in an …
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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, Minnesota, early this morning. “Jill Sobule was a force of nature and human rights advocate whose music …
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