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Jill Sobule, I Kissed a Girl singer, dies in Minneapolis house fire aged 66

Musician whose hits also included the satirical anthem Supermodel from the Clueless soundtrack died early on Thursday

Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter whose hits included the satirical anthem Supermodel from the Clueless movie soundtrack and the groundbreaking single I Kissed a Girl, has died in a house fire at the age of 66. Sobule was remembered for a diverse body of music that ranged from deeply intimate to socially conscious themes in a recording career that spanned a dozen albums starting in 1990 with her Todd Rungren-produced debut collection, Things Here Are Different. Her eponymous 1995 album included two of her biggest hits, Supermodel from the Hollywood coming-of-age comedy Clueless, and I Kissed a Girl, widely regarded as the first openly LGBTQ-themed song to crack the Billboard top 20 singles chart.

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