Many people grew up with the music of the Village People, but Jonathan Belolo literally did. His father co-founded the disco group in 1977, and the younger Belolo was immersed in the band’s history, ...

Village People’s 1978 hit “YMCA” is the group’s most enduring song, and the hit single is frequently described as a “gay anthem” (even the Library Of Congress thinks it is). However, the band’s Victor ...

Henri Belolo, the music producer and co-founding architect of the Village People, has died at age 82, the French authors’ copyright board said Monday. Born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1936 to a sailor ...

Village People were a novelty disco band of the late 1970s. The group were as well known for their outrageous on-stage costumes (the members dressing up as a police officer, an American Indian chief, ...

“Y.M.C.A.” singer and co-writer Victor Willis of the band Village People revealed why he allowed President-elect Donald Trump to continue to use the song. He also dispelled the notion that it is a gay ...

Stephen Colbert channeled what a lot of his viewers are surely thinking on Tuesday’s “The Late Show,” when he brought up the fact that Donald Trump’s second inauguration is just a week away. “I know, ...

It’s a song considered de rigueur on any disc jockey’s playlist, especially at a wedding, bar mitzvah or any event that involves dancing. Even people who, as a rule, don’t dance are somehow ...

Henri Belolo, a creator of the Village People, the disco group that found mainstream success by performing campy songs like “Y.M.C.A.” while attired as macho archetypes, died on Aug. 3 at his home in ...