TEN singalong things you never knew about Trump's very unlikely favourite band The news that the famously camp Village People are to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration ball on Monday is as unlikely as hearing that the President-elect of the Dad-Dancing Society has won Strictly.
Approached by struggling singer/actor Victor Willis, he hired him to sing the four tracks on an album called Village People, a nod to the gay community in New York’s Greenwich Village.
The Village People were created by French composer and producer Jacques Morali, a gay man who had enjoyed several hits in Europe before moving to New York in 1977 to break into the American market.
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