With a runtime of nearly 12 minutes, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" remains one of the group's most influential achievements. Blending a lengthy runtime with cinematic storytelling, psychedelic soul, ...

Victor Willis, the lead singer of the Village People who also cowrote many of the group’s high-camp disco-era hits, including “YMCA” and “Macho Man,” died Monday. He was 74. The group announced his ...

The Village People adopted campy archetypes of masculinity. Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, they ...

Victor Willis was the band's frontman and co-wrote most of their hit songs including YMCA.

Over six decades with the Motown legends, he has performed some 3,300 concerts, seen pain, tragedy, racism and the early deaths of all his original bandmates. At 84, he has no plans to stop ...

When I was 22, I was a music critic for an alternative weekly newspaper, and I recognized my own past experience from the ...

The co-writer of enduring hits such as YMCA and Macho Man, who struggled with drug use and legal issues for years, passed away after ‘short but aggressive illness’ ...

The Rolling Stones are known for writing a lot of their music. It’s Keith Richards and Mick Jagger who are the writers behind ...

Lead vocalist of Village People, the American disco group famed for their hits YMCA, In the Navy and Go West ...

Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who passed away at age 94 this week, worked with iconic musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys, winning several Grammy Awards and ...

Victor Willis, who has died following a short illness aged 74, was the co-founder and frontman of the Village People, the costumed sextet who livened up the charts with such earworm disco anthems as ...

Family: My husband Michael, and son Johnny, 8. How did you meet your husband? We met while performing La Boheme, playing ...