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Jill Sobule

Satirical Singer/Songwriter

Jill Sobule belongs to a rare breed of artists. Her work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic.

Over five albums and a decade of recording, the Denver-born songwriter/guitarist/singer has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence, and the Christian right. She played in a variety of funk and rock bands in Colorado, and eventually made her first, Todd Rundgren-produced album for MCA, Things Here Are Different. Jill’s album work, Happy Town, Pink Pearl, and 2004’s Underdog Victorious, is consistently acclaimed by critics and she has also played the role of political troubadour for NPR stations across the country and Air America Radio.

A veritable gypsy, Jill divides her time between a busy touring schedule and, since last year, her responsibilities as songwriter/composer for the Nickelodeon network hit show, Unfabulous. She composed the music for the off-Broadway show Prozak and the Platypus and co-starred in the Eric Schaeffer film Mind the Gap.