Village People is an American disco group formed in 1977 by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo. Who are the original members, ...

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 ...

He was the first of the Village People members, providing the vocals and co-writing the lyrics for the first four singles worked on by producers Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo.

Village People were a novelty disco band of the late 1970s. ... Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, specifically to showcase and perform their disco music creations. Much like Frank Farian's Boney M. or ...

The first time Felipe Rose met Village People producer Jacques Morali, he laughed at him. Rose, a.k.a. The Indian, was a dancer at the Anvil, one of the “most notorious” gay clubs in N.Y.C ...

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.

Henri Belolo — he’s the one without a costume — with the Village People in an undated photograph. Mr. Belolo and the composer Jacques Morali, a business partner, created the group in 1977 ...

Now, it is important to point out that Allan Carr, and Jacques Morali, and all but one of the Village People are gay as hell. And though the gay community was making strides toward visibility and ...

Music producer and disco visionair Henri Belolo, best known for co-creating the Village People, has died at age 82. Belolo died Saturday, French music copyright management group Sacem confirmed on … ...

With Jacques Morali and lead singer Victor Willis, ... Village People released the album "Go West," which included "In the Navy," another song co-written by Belolo that peaked at No. 3 hit on the ...