Jill Sobule dies in house fire after high -profile feud with Katy Perry
The legendary singer and songwriter Jill Sobule, who has fueled a bitter feud with Katy Perry, has tragically died in a house fire.
RadarOnline.com can make the artist public, 66 after a house was fired early on Thursday morning in Minneapolis.
The house was already flooded in flames by the time the first response arrived, and the fire – whose cause was not immediately known – is reportedly investigated.
Sobule is best known for her single from 1995 I kissed a girl And she got involved in a feud with Perry after the superstar singer had released her hit with the same name almost a decade later in 2008.
The following year she took out to Perry and called her an “F — ING small SL-” after she initially claimed that she was not bothered by the number.
She had the problems with the Hot n Hitmaker for reusing the name of the song after Perry, 40, claimed that she had come up with “in a dream”.
Sobule, who identified herself as bisexually, said: “In truth she wrote it with a team of professional writers and was signed by the same man who signed me in 1995.
“I didn’t say that in interviews, because I don’t want to sound bitter or small – because I am not.”
In the same interview, Sobule released her anger on Perry in another shocking tirade.
She said: “F — You Katy Perry, you are stupid, maybe ‘not good for the gays’, title thief, have not heard much yet, so not entirely certain whether you are talented, F — ING small SL &.”
Although her fame in the course of time, she continued to record and release new music regularly in recent years.
The artist was planned to appear in the Tuft Theater of Swallow Hill Music in Denver, Colorado – her birthplace – on Friday.
Sobule, who also had a song in the classical comedy from 1995 Without ideareached number 20 on American Billboard Modern Rock Tracks that year with I kissed a girlWhich means that up to that moment it is the most successful LGBTQ theme number on the Billboard hit lists
Her representative said that a formal memorial for her life and work will be held this summer.
Sobula’s manager, John Porter, said in a statement: “Jill Sobule was a power of nature and human rights lawyer whose music was woven into our culture. I had so much pleasure to work with her.
“I lost a customer and a friend today. I hope that her music, memory and inheritance will continue to live and inspire others.”
Sobula’s old lawyer, Ken Hertz, added. “Jill wasn’t just a customer. She was family for us. She showed up for every birth, every birthday and every vacation.
“She performed on the wedding of our daughter and I was her ‘technology’ when she performed through Zoom from our living room (while she lived with us) during the pandemic.”
Sobule is survived by her brother James Sobule and his wife Mary Ellen, as well as by her nephews, Ian Matthew, Robert and his wife Irina.
