Jill Sobule: Age, Biography and Wiki
Jill Sobule was born on January 16, 1959, and passed away on May 1, 2025, at the age of 66. She was a talented singer-songwriter and musician who made significant contributions to the music industry. Sobule identified as bisexual and was known for her activism and creative control over her work.
| Occupation | Folk Singer |
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| Date of Birth | 16 January 1959 |
| Age | 66 Years |
| Birth Place | Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
| Country | U.S |
| Date of death | 1 May, 2025 |
| Died Place | N/A |
Height, Weight & Measurements
There is no publicly available information on Jill Sobule's height or weight.
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Dating & Relationship status
Details about Jill Sobule's romantic life are not widely documented, but she was known for her advocacy and openness about her identity.
In May 2008, Sobule released a CD of music from Prozak and the Platypus, a multi-media collaboration of Sobule, playwright Elise Thoron, and graphic artist KellyAnne Hanrahan. The play, written by Thoron (book, lyrics) and Sobule (music) and illustrated in a graphic novella by Hanrahan, tells the story of a fierce young woman, Sara (a musician), and her father Arvin, a neuroscientist, who relocates his family from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, to study R.E.M. sleep in the platypus, a unique species native to Australia. Shattered by her mother's recent suicide and unhappy with the side effects of her own treatment for depression, Sara renames herself "Prozak," rages through her songwriting, and rebels. Meanwhile, in her father's lab, Sara finds an unexpected confidant in her father's current lab subject, a jaunty platypus who speaks to her and calls himself "Frankie". In the piece, according to its website, "Music club and science lab become testing grounds in which angry teen and scientist father pit aboriginal mythology against modern neuroscience research. The dreams of a platypus prove to be the link between the two."
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Net Worth and Salary
At the time of her death, Jill Sobule's estimated net worth varied between $1.1 million and $5 million, according to different sources. Her wealth primarily came from her successful music career, which included album sales and touring, as well as composing music for television shows.
Career, Business and Investments
Jill Sobule's career spanned over three decades, with notable songs like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Supermodel." She was also involved in composing original music for television, including the Nickelodeon series Unfabulous. In 2008, Sobule innovatively funded her album California Years through fan donations, marking a unique approach to music production.
Sobule attended St. Mary's Academy, while she was the only Jew there, she played the guitar during mass. She enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder to study political science and spent her junior year in Seville, Spain, where she first performed her public gigs. Sobule later returned to the U.S. and dropped out from UC-Boulder to pursue a music career.
The Jill Sobule album seemed to establish Sobule's commercial prospects, but her third album slowed that momentum while setting what was the musical and production patterns for the rest of her career. In 1997 Happy Town featured Sobule's most elaborate pop productions and contains songs about an eclectic range of topics including reactionary Christianity ("Soldiers of Christ"), the negative impact of antidepressant medication on the libido ("Happy Town"), and a track that uses Anne Frank's enforced Nazi-era hibernation as the metaphor for a love song ("Attic"). Though embraced by record reviewers from publications as diverse as The Advocate and Entertainment Weekly, Happy Town sold poorly, simultaneously solidifying Sobule's critical reputation while stalling her commercial momentum.
The more elaborately recorded Underdog Victorious, also released in 2004, was one of the last albums distributed by legendary personal manager and media entrepreneur Danny Goldberg's now-defunct Artemis Records. Stalling album sales led Sobule to move to Los Angeles. She continued to write and perform prolifically and to compose original music for television, including for the popular Nickelodeon series Unfabulous.
Social Network
Although Jill Sobule is no longer active on social media, her legacy continues to be celebrated by fans and fellow artists on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). Tributes have been shared by musicians and actors who admired her work and impact on the music scene.
Jill Susan Sobule (January 16, 1959 – May 1, 2025) was an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing.
Sobule's debut album, Things Here Are Different, was released by MCA Records in 1990. Produced by pop legend Todd Rundgren, the album failed to sell. She made a followup record produced by British New Wave rocker Joe Jackson (for whom she opened in 1991), but Sobule was dropped from her label and the second album was never released. She recorded another album's worth of songs, with Wendy & Lisa producing, in 1992; this was also shelved by MCA. Three of the songs from those sessions – "Trains," "Karen By Night" and "Margaret" – would be re-recorded when Sobule signed with Lava/Atlantic for her eponymous second album, released five years after her debut. Her 1995 album Jill Sobule established Sobule as part of a fruitful mid-90s movement of female singer-songwriters that included such artists as Lisa Loeb, Juliana Hatfield, and Alanis Morissette. The album contains Sobule's best-known composition and biggest hit, "I Kissed a Girl", a story-song about a lesbian flirtation between two suburban girlfriends which became an unlikely radio success thanks in part to a comedic music video featuring beefcake model Fabio Lanzoni. "Supermodel" (sample lyric: "I didn't eat yesterday ... and I'm not gonna eat today ... and I'm not gonna eat tomorrow ... 'Cause I'm gonna be a supermodel") managed to both send up and celebrate American teenage lifestyles, and became well known after its inclusion in 1995's hit teen comedy film Clueless.
Also in 2007, Sobule's song "San Francisco" became the first single released by Don Was as part of his Wasmopolitan Cavalcade of Recorded Music, an advertiser-sponsored means for the recording and distribution of new music, part of the multimedia website mydamnchannel.com. The pair also collaborated on a 16-minute concert video, directed by Margaret Cho and entitled "Jill Sobule's Dance Party," distributed for free in two parts on both mydamnchannel.com and YouTube. Sobule also collaborated with Cho on the 2010 song and video "The Bear Song."
Education
There is no detailed information available about Jill Sobule's educational background.
The 2000 record Pink Pearl may be Sobule's most characteristic set. It is anchored by three female character studies: "Lucy at the Gym", about an anorexic exercise addict; "Claire", about an aging lesbian aviator succumbing to Alzheimer's disease; and "Mary Kay", about Mary Kay Letourneau, the notorious real-life schoolteacher who became impregnated and was imprisoned as the result of the statutory rape of a 13-year-old male student, whom she married when he reached the age of consent.
