Victor Willis, Village People frontman and 'Y.M.C.A' co-writer, dies aged 74

Victor Willis, the lead singer and co-writer of Village People's Y.M.C.A., has died at age seventy-four. According to France 24, Willis passed away Wednesday. The disco anthem, released in nineteen seventy-eight, became one of pop music's most iconic and durable hits. Willis had recently made headlines by performing the song at Donald Trump's second inauguration in January twenty twenty-five, after initially opposing its political use.

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