{"id":2483600,"date":"2026-07-01T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2483600"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:13:25","slug":"victor-willis-who-co-founded-the-village-people-and-co-wrote-y-m-c-a-dies-at-74-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/victor-willis-who-co-founded-the-village-people-and-co-wrote-y-m-c-a-dies-at-74-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People and co-wrote &#8216;Y.M.C.A.,&#8217; dies at 74 | Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People and co-wrote &#8216;Y.M.C.A.,&#8217; dies at 74 | Celebrities | journalgazette.net<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/ns.html?id=GTM-PDQV3N&amp;townnews.product.software=BLOX&amp;townnews.product.version=1.94.1&amp;townnews.crm.group_id=131&amp;tncms.page.app=editorial&amp;tncms.page.skin=flex-editorial&amp;tncms.page.theme=flex&amp;tncms.page.http_status=451&amp;tncms.client.is_bot=yes&amp;tncms.client.noscript=yes&amp;tncms.client.is_gdpr=yes&amp;tncms.system.render_time=52\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/ns.html?id=GTM-T3CRHKV&amp;townnews.product.software=BLOX&amp;townnews.product.version=1.94.1&amp;townnews.crm.group_id=131&amp;tncms.page.app=editorial&amp;tncms.page.skin=flex-editorial&amp;tncms.page.theme=flex&amp;tncms.page.http_status=451&amp;tncms.client.is_bot=yes&amp;tncms.client.noscript=yes&amp;tncms.client.is_gdpr=yes&amp;tncms.system.render_time=52\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n            We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which<br \/>\n            enforces the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gdpr-info.eu\/\">General Data Protection Regulation<\/a> (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.<\/p>\n<p>                For any issues, contact <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/content\/tncms\/live\/mailto:jgnews@jg.net\">jgnews@jg.net<\/a> or call <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/content\/tncms\/live\/tel:+1260-461-8773\">260-461-8773<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.journalgazette.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People and co-wrote &#8216;Y.M.C.A.,&#8217; dies at 74 | Celebrities | journalgazette.net We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[21751,21741,22773,24495],"class_list":["post-2483600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-national","tag-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782918804_Victor-Willis-who-co-founded-the-Village-People-and-co-wrote-YMCA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483602,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483600\/revisions\/2483602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}