Village People May Perform At Trump’s Inauguration

The Daily Beast reports:

The Village People responded with a firm “no” when asked to perform at President Trump’s first inauguration. They also declined to appear at Mar-a-Lago last New Year’s Eve.

But the iconic group of the disco era is ready to at least consider playing President Trump’s inauguration and singing his campaign anthem Y.M.C.A. if asked. “We’re expecting their call any day now,” Karen Willis, the group’s manager, told the Daily Beast. “And we won’t rule it out.”

Willis is also the wife of Victor Willis, the lead singer and singular constant in a group that drew its name from Greenwich Village and has had a changing cast of 30 different people over the years.

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In September 2020, Victor Willis threatened to sue news outlets or “anyone else” who suggested that YMCA was about gay sex, writing on Facebook, “Get your minds out of the gutter!” Willis left the group in 1980 during filming of the flop-turned-cult movie, Can’t Stop The Music. He returned in 2017 after winning a 2015 court battle giving him 50% ownership of the group’s hit singles.

Village People considering an invitation to perform at Pres Trump’s inauguration “if it could bring people together.” Trump loves their YMCA song, but they refused to perform for his events in past. Now, they see it as a “Trump anthem”…https://t.co/PiosRjMZ1F

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