Producer/Composer Jacques Morali found Felipe dancing in his Indian costume in a crowd in NY’s Greenwich Village. Felipe’s special visual attraction brought the idea to mind to put together a group of Village icons from various American social groups.

Soon after, Morali saw Victor Willis in Broadway’s The Wiz and Victor brought along Alex Briley to play a G.I. With partner Henri Belolo, Morali held auditions for 3 more performers and Village People was formed.

Selling more than 65 million recordings (1987 Dance Music Report), Village People are an instant phenomenom with hits San Francisco/In Hollywood, Macho Man, YMCA, In the Navy, Go West and more. The Disco Era is in full bloom.

Madonna and Joan Rivers are among artists who have appeared as opening acts for Village People in Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, Japan’s Budokan, Sidney’s Hordern Pavilion and Hollywood’s Greek Theatre. Even Michael Jackson co-stars with Village People in LA’s Palladium.

The group wins many worldwide awards including the American Music Award-Favorite Musical Group 1979, AGVA’s Georgie Award, West Germany’s Gold Lion Award for music excellence, Brazil’s 1981 Award for Best Act, etc.

Village People star in their own 1980 major feature movie Can’t Stop the Music co-starring Steve Guttenberg, Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine, Paul Sand, June Havoc, Tammy Grimes and directed by Nancy Walker. It remains a popular cult film around the world.

Village People are on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine and are featured in Guiness Book of Hits, Time, Playboy, Playgirl, GQ, US, People, Paris Match, World Book Encyclopedia, Dick Clark’s 25 Years of Rock ‘n Roll & hundreds more. Television appearances include The Love Boat, Bob Hope Show, 20/20 (twice), American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Soul Train, Midnight Special and dozens more in more than 20 countries.

The group takes a short break from the rigors of touring in 1986, during which time some of the members explored individual careers.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING NOW: 1988 - present

"THEY HELPED DEFINE A POP ERA, AND THEY ARE BACK!" - Billboard
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"THE BEST CONCERT WE’VE HAD IN YEARS!" - New York University
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"STILL AS SEXY AS EVER, AUDIENCES WARMED TO THEIR ENTHUSIASM, STRONG VERSATILE VOCALS AND CHOREOGRAPHY!" -The News, Australia
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"VILLAGE PEOPLE HAVE MAINSTREAM ACCEPTANCE! THE CROWD LAPPED IT UP, SINGING ALONG!" - Disney World’s New Year’s Eve show, /Orlando Sentinel
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"EXUBERANT-A WILDLY ENTERTAINING PERFORMANCE!" - NY Daily News ***
"FABULOUS! VILLAGE PEOPLE TOOK THE CROWD BY STORM, SINGING LIVE AND PERFORMING BRILLIANTLY! - London Evening Standard

Village People regroup under the banner of Sixuvus ("six of us") Ltd. Finally their own bosses, and with the help of a new management team, Village People has built an amazing success story of live performances worldwide, new young audiences, television and video appearances, and industry respect.

Of the originating and long-term members, Ray, David, Felipe, Jeff and Alex continued on.

Village People wrote and now perform in their show a new classic entitled Trash Disco, a tribute to the many artists and dance hits which are now a memorable part of the disco era. They recorded in 1990 on CBS Records(Australia) the top-ten hit Living in the Wildlife and in 1995 sang with the German Soccer Team on the BMG Records(Germany) number one hit Far Away in America .

Their hits have been heard on dozens of recent major motion pictures including Down Periscope, Waynes World II, Adams Family Values and In and Out. They have performed four times in the past 2 years on the Jay Leno Show. As well as the Rosie O’Donnell Show, Oprah and Married with Children.

They were the half-time entertainment for Australia’s Rugby Grand Finals seen by more people than the Superbowl. Their music is played during the seven inning stretch at dozens of baseball games and they often entertain sports fans with live performances following soccer and hockey games as well.

Village People recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a national tour that included NYC’s Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, and LA’s Greek Theatre. They have just completed a unique documentary sharing music and culture with Australia’s aborigines entitled Village People Go North Down Under . Both VH-1 and MTV have featured Village People on recent programs.

As they enter their third decade, they continue to thrill audiences from 4 to 70 at concerts throughout the world.