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Village People
New York City, United States • b. 1977-01-01
Village People is credited on 56 releases across 13 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
56
Pressings credited
13
Albums
6
Decades active
23
In collections
Biography
Village People is an American disco group known for its on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics in their music. The group was originally formed by French producers Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo and lead singer Victor Willis following the release of the debut album Village People, which targeted disco's large gay audience. The group's name refers to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, with its reputation as a gayborhood. The characters were a symbolic group of American masculinity and macho gay-fantasy personas. The group quickly became popular and moved into the mainstream, scoring several disco and dance hits internationally, including the hit singles "Macho Man", "In the Navy", "Go West", and "Y.M.C.A.", which was their biggest hit. In March 2020, the Library of Congress described "Y.M.C.A." as "an American phenomenon", and added the song to the National Recording Registry, which preserves audio recordings considered to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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Credited work
56 releases · 13 albums · active 1978–2022
- Performance · 51
- Other credits · 14
Studios: Sigma Sound Studios, New York · Waterworks · Context Studios · Toxic Shock Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Phylicia Allen
- Skunks
- Die Lollipops
- John Draikis
- Dorian Electra
- Jacques Morali
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