One night in 1977, Jacques Morali, a French record producer who’d relocated to America, was in the bar and saw Rose dancing. ... When the album Village People was released, ...

Just to be clear, there would be no YMCA song without Jacques Morali. He came up with the hook, as he did with all the VP music, after Randy Jones took him to a YMCA and introduced him to several ...

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, ... Jacques Morali and ...

However, the Village People are closely tied to gay culture, with the group’s creators Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, the latter of whom was gay.

The Village People is an American disco group founded in 1977 by Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo and Victor Willis. The group's name is a reference to Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York ...

The Village People’s lyricist and lead singer has hit out at the “false assumption” that the band ... who headed up the 1970s disco band and wrote the song with producer Jacques Morali, ...

The song was co-written by Willis and the late French producer Jacques Morali, who was gay. He died in 1991. “The song is not really a gay anthem other than certain people falsely suggesting ...

"Y.M.C.A." was co-written by French producer Jacques Morali and Victor Willis, the group's singer and a founding member of Village People. Willis, known for portraying the policeman and sometimes ...

A Village People member thanked Donald Trump for using 'YMCA' during his presidential campaign and denied it's a 'gay ... and my writing partner, Jacques Morali wrote the music. Since 2020, ...

And Village People will not take on one group's political issues." Donald Trump: Sworn in as 47th president, ... a group founder who co-wrote "Y.M.C.A." with producer Jacques Morali, ...

Village People mastermind Jacques Morali based the character on patrons of a New York leather bar and sex club called the Mineshaft, which he frequented. Glenn remained with the Village People ...

The Village People’s lyricist and lead singer has hit out at the “false assumption” that the band ... who headed up the 1970s disco band and wrote the song with producer Jacques Morali, ...