ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jill Sobule - Singer/songwriter
Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now.

Why you should listen

Jill Sobule first found her place in music history with the controversial 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl." The song's silly sweetness masked its significance: It broke new ground as the first Top 40 hit to deal with overtly gay themes.

This approach -- packaging hard-hitting social commentary in a wrapper of whimsy -- has defined Sobule's career. Her endearing story-songs veer from fanciful storytelling to forceful satire and back again, covering a wide range of political and social issues from climate change to prostitution; anorexia to anti-semitism. Her winning combination of memorable characters, clever lyrics and catchy tunes has inspired comparisons that range from Burt Bacharach to Gertrude Stein. It also makes her performances and recordings a delight.

Sobule's candy-coated commentary can be found on her Huffington Post blog, as well as in her steady stream of stand-out albums, including Jill Sobule (1995), Happy Town (1997), Pink Pearl (2000) and Underdog Victorious (2004). Lately, Sobule has performed regularly with comedian Julia Sweeney (the two met at TED2006). They put on the "Jill and Julia Show," an utterly endearing evening of stories and songs. She's also recording an album with the string quartet Ethel (another TED2006 match).

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TED2006

Jill Sobule: Global warming's theme song, "Manhattan in January"

Jill Sobule canta para Al Gore

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Uma música alegre sobre o aquecimento global, de Jill Sobule.
- Singer/songwriter
Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now. Full bio

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StrollingPasseando alongao longo in CentralCentral ParkParque
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♫ A passear no Central Park ♫
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Everyone'sTodos os out todayhoje
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♫ Hoje todos estão a passear ♫
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♫ The daisiesmargaridas and dogwoodsCornus are all in bloomflor
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♫ Margaridas e cornisos estão a florir ♫
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♫ Oh, what a gloriousglorioso day ♫
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♫ Oh, que dia glorioso ♫
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♫ For picnicspiqueniques and FrisbeesFrisbees and rollerrolo skatersskatistas, ♫
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♫ para piqueniques, frisbees e patinação ♫
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FriendsAmigos and loversamantes and lonelysolitário sunbathersbanhistas
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♫ Amigos e amantes e solitários a se bronzear ♫
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Everyone'sTodos os out in merryalegre ManhattanManhattan in JanuaryJaneiro de
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♫ Todos estão a passear na alegre Manhattan em Janeiro ♫
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♫ I broughttrouxe the icedgelado teachá; ♫
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♫ Did you bringtrazer the bugerro sprayspray? ♫
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♫ Tu trouxeste o spray contra mosquitos? ♫
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♫ The fliesmoscas are the sizeTamanho of your headcabeça
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♫ As moscas são do tamanho da tua cabeça ♫
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NextNa próxima to the palmPalma treeárvore, ♫
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♫ Próximo à palmeira, ♫
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♫ Did you see the 'gators' jacarés
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♫ Tu viste os jacarés ♫
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♫ Looking happyfeliz and well fedalimentado? ♫
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♫ Todos estão a passear na alegre Manhattan em Janeiro ♫
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EveryoneToda a gente!
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Todo mundo!
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♫ My preacherpregador said, ♫
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♫ Meu pastor disse, ♫
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♫ Don't you worrypreocupação
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♫ Não te preocupes ♫
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♫ The scientistscientistas have it all wrongerrado
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♫ Os cientistas estão completamente equivocados ♫
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♫ And so, who caresse preocupa it's winterinverno here? ♫
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♫ E então, quem se importa se é inverno aqui? ♫
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♫ And I have my halter-topHalter-Top on ♫
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♫ e eu estou de camisola ♫
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♫ I have my halter-topHalter-Top on ♫
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Translated by Rafael Eufrasio
Reviewed by Bruno Gomes

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jill Sobule - Singer/songwriter
Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now.

Why you should listen

Jill Sobule first found her place in music history with the controversial 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl." The song's silly sweetness masked its significance: It broke new ground as the first Top 40 hit to deal with overtly gay themes.

This approach -- packaging hard-hitting social commentary in a wrapper of whimsy -- has defined Sobule's career. Her endearing story-songs veer from fanciful storytelling to forceful satire and back again, covering a wide range of political and social issues from climate change to prostitution; anorexia to anti-semitism. Her winning combination of memorable characters, clever lyrics and catchy tunes has inspired comparisons that range from Burt Bacharach to Gertrude Stein. It also makes her performances and recordings a delight.

Sobule's candy-coated commentary can be found on her Huffington Post blog, as well as in her steady stream of stand-out albums, including Jill Sobule (1995), Happy Town (1997), Pink Pearl (2000) and Underdog Victorious (2004). Lately, Sobule has performed regularly with comedian Julia Sweeney (the two met at TED2006). They put on the "Jill and Julia Show," an utterly endearing evening of stories and songs. She's also recording an album with the string quartet Ethel (another TED2006 match).

More profile about the speaker
Jill Sobule | Speaker | TED.com