Fire officials in Woodbury on Friday were still trying to determine how and why Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter and human rights activist, died in a house fire in Woodbury early Thursday. Firefighters were called to the 9200 block of Pinehurst Road, near Interlachen Parkway, around 5:30 a.m. after receiving a report of a fire.

Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song “I Kissed a Girl,” died in a Woodbury house fire Thursday. She was 66.

Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter whose 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl" was a national chart hit, has been identified as the woman killed in a house fire in Woodbury on Thursday morning.