Singer Joy Villa defends Trump's controversial immigration policies on the red carpet at Grammy Awards 2025
Singer Joy Villa defends Trump's controversial immigration policies on the red carpet at Grammy Awards 2025
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Singer Joy Villa defended the controversial immigration policies implemented by President Donald Trump as she walked the red carpet of the 2025 Grammy Awards based out of the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Villa, 38, said she was in support of the deportations ordered by Trump and enacted by authorities over the past week, amid widespread protests across the country in response this past weekend. 'I think that the ones that are being deported should be deported,' Villa, who is also an actress and YouTuber, told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet Sunday evening. 'I love to see rapists, human traffickers deported. I don't want to see them here.'.
Villa opened up on her own cultural background and background as an artist in explaining her support of Trump's policies. 'I'm a Latina,' she said. 'My family came to this country legally ... I want us to be free, for all colors, for all people. That's what makes America great again. So we can create, so we can live. 'As an artist, as a musician, I want to be able to walk at night and not think that I'm going to get killed by an illegal alien.'.
Singer Joy Villa, 38, defended the controversial immigration policies implemented by President Donald Trump as she walked the red carpet of the 2025 Grammy Awards based out of the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Villa said Sunday, 'I love to see rapists, human traffickers deported. I don't want to see them here'. Villa, who has past accused Trump associate Corey Lewandoski of sexual harassment, said that 'the people getting deported ... are the people that should get deported.'.
The 2025 Grammys were hosted by Trevor Noah for the fifth consecutive year and set to raise funds to support fire relief efforts after the devastation caused by the LA blazes which began on January 7 in Pacific Palisades. Superstar singer Beyonce dominates the list of Grammy Award contenders with 11 nods, including an Album Of The Year nomination for her venture into country music, Cowboy Carter. Behind Beyonce, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone tie with seven nominations each.
Pop phenomenon Taylor Swift and newcomers Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter scored six each. Women dominated the Album of the Year category, the top Grammy honor. Beyonce, winner of more Grammys over her career than any other artist, has never taken home the album trophy. Swift has won the honor four times and is in the running again with her breakup album The Tortured Poets Department. Beyonce got 11 nods for her album Cowboy Carter; seen on October 25 in Houston.
At the awards ceremony in February, the Beyonce and Swift records will compete with Carpenter's 'Short n' Sweet,' 'Brat' from Charli XCX, Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft,' and Roan's 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.'. The two male artists nominated in the album field were rapper Andre 3000 with 'New Blue Sun' and jazz artist Jacob Collier for 'Djesse Vol. 4.'. Winners will be chosen by the roughly 13,000 singers, songwriters, producers, engineers and others who make up the Recording Academy.
Beyonce's Cowboy Carter was viewed by experts and fans as a reclamation and homage to an overlooked legacy of Black Americans within country music and culture. It became the first album by a Black woman to land at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart when it was released last spring. The Beyonce album was snubbed, however, by voters for the Country Music Awards in September. Beyonce's other Grammy nods included record and song of the year for single 'Texas Hold 'Em.' Her 11 nominations brought her lifetime total to 99, more than any other artist. Prior to Friday, she had been tied for the lead with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, who has 88.
Beyonce's Cowboy Carter was viewed by experts and fans as a reclamation and homage to an overlooked legacy of Black Americans within country music and culture. The show will raise funds to support fire relief efforts after the devastation caused by the LA blazes which began on January 7 in Pacific Palisades - pictured: Flames from the Eaton fire in Altadena engulf a home. Gayle King made an introduction before the Grammy nominations were announced.
In the best new artist field, 'Espresso' singer Carpenter will face fellow pop singer Roan, pop-rock singer Benson Boone, hip-hop/country artist Shaboozey, multi-genre musician Teddy Swims and others. Another name on the Grammy nominations list? The Beatles. 'Now and Then,' produced with artificial intelligence to bring the voice of John Lennon to life, was nominated for song of the year. Best Pop Solo Performance nominations went to Beyonce, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, and Chappell Roan.
Best New Artist went to Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Khruangbin, Raye, Chappell Roan, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims. Best Country Album went to Cowboy Carter, F-1, Deeper Well, Higher, and Whirlwind. Song of the Year went to Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em, Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather, Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!, Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us, Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With a Smile, Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please, Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) and Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone - Fortnight.