May got off to a sad start with the news of the death of pioneering LGBTQ singer/songwriter Jill Sobourg.
The 66-year-old died in a fire in a home in Woodbury, Minnesota on Thursday morning, May 1st. New York Times Object, Sobourg was staying with friends while rehearsing for upcoming concerts in his Colorado hometown.
Identified as bisexual, a longtime advocate and activist of human rights, LGBTQ equality and mental health, Sobule is a touring circuit mainstay and has performances almost year-round in the Washington area.
Sobule has released her last three studio albums for her own Pinko Records, released in 2009. Her seventh studio album, California Year, A completely fan funded project. It made musicians a pioneer in crowdfunding. That expertise was inevitably solicited by the founders of Kickstarter when they launched the company.
Born on January 16, 1959 by Jill Susan Sobour to a veterinarian father and a musician mother, Sobour grew up with his older brother in a Jewish family in Denver.
Her legacy lives on through her recorded music, including the original cast recording of F*CK 7th grade From the off-Broadway debut of the musical in 2022 (the cast album is expected to be released in early June).
June will also showcase Sobule’s breakthrough and the release of the 30th annealed vinyl version of his self-titled sophomore album.
The album formed the pinnacle of Sobule’s success as a pop artist and also made her an early entrant of Out LGBTQ artist Pantheon.
The album’s single “I Kissed a Girl” is reportedly Sobule’s biggest hit.
It followed after that “Supermodel” became a modest hit due to being included in the hit movie ignorance The second half of that year.
“People call me a one-hit wonder, and I say, ‘Wait a second, I’m a two-hit wonder!”,” Sobourg said in 2022. New York Times Interview.
Released 30 years ago, “I Kissed A Girl” was a song firecracker. the The lyrics describe the homosexual encounter shared between the two women.
The song is sweeter, more expressive and has a much more authentic feel than the 2008 song, which has the same title that introduced the world to Katy Perry.
Perry’s No. 1 hit framed a encounter with another woman as a one-off fluke that was conservatively put together, “I hope my boyfriend doesn’t care.”
Sobule has not proven such concerns in her song. It found that she welcomed the moment and hinted at what’s going on. As she screams on the bridge, “I kissed the girl and I might do it again!”
Sobule’s expression of hopeful hypothesis was greatly discounted and discounted by executives of Atlantic, her record label at the time, including the groundbreaking themes and bisexual identity.
“I was out in the ’80s and early ’90s, but then I got a record deal,” Sobule said in a 2021 interview. Philadelphia Gay News. “I was sitting in the conference room and preparing to hold my first convention… along with all the big names, they said, “Tracy Chapman and Melissa Eterridge were already there. That surprised me, but… I didn’t want to be classified as a lesbian singer-songwriter. [or as] Part of the “women’s music” scene…it wasn’t about me. But if you say something, you’ll be put in the box.
“I wasn’t even thinking about it [‘I Kissed A Girl’] She continued. “But it came out and treated like a novelty. For me, it was a good song to listen to when I was younger, so I wanted it. I knew the only way to ride the billboard charts was to make it like pulp fiction, so I had these suburban wife scenarios to get it [in the music video]. At first it was all about labels, but then they started backtracking a bit. Nashville has stations with video disclaimers, and some stations have banned singing.
“But this was what bothered me more than anything. We had Fabio, who was involved in all of the romance novels. [female] Neighbors… We were going to do the real thing [same-sex] A kiss at the end…but at the last minute, they pulled it and instead pregnant with Fabio’s baby and ended it with me. It broke my heart – but to this day I still get messages from people who say the video really helped them. ”
A formal memorial to celebrate Sobre will be held later this summer, according to a statement released by her family.
Source: Metro Weekly – www.metroweekly.com
