{"id":165681,"date":"2025-05-02T00:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/singer-jill-sobule-dead-at-66-tragically-killed-in-house-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T00:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:33:30","slug":"singer-jill-sobule-dead-at-66-tragically-killed-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/singer-jill-sobule-dead-at-66-tragically-killed-in-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Jill Sobule Dead at 66, Tragically Killed in House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jill-sobule\/\" title=\"Jill Sobule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jill Sobule<\/strong><\/a> has sadly passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cI Kissed a Girl\u201d singer died on Thursday morning (May 1) at the age of 66 in a house fire in Minneapolis. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jill<\/strong>\u2018s manager told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/music-news\/jill-sobule-dead-i-kissed-a-girl-singer-1236205727\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/music-news\/jill-sobule-dead-i-kissed-a-girl-singer-1236205727\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> that she was staying with friends at the time of the fire and the friends \u201clost Jill, their house and their dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2108283\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Jill Sobule<\/strong> 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,\u201d the manager, <strong>John Porter<\/strong>, shared in a statement. \u201cI lost a client and a friend today. I hope her music, memory and legacy continue to live on and inspire others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jill<\/strong>\u2018s song \u201cI Kissed a Girl\u201d is known to be the first openly gay track to chart in the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sending our thoughts and condolences to <strong>Jill<\/strong>\u2018s loved ones during this difficult time. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/05\/01\/singer-jill-sobule-dead-at-66-tragically-killed-in-house-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule has sadly passed away. The \u201cI Kissed a Girl\u201d singer died on Thursday morning (May 1) at the age of 66 in a house fire in Minneapolis. Jill\u2018s manager told The Hollywood Reporter that she was staying with friends at the time of the fire and the friends \u201clost Jill, their house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}