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Randolph Edward Jones (born September 13, 1952) is an American disco and pop singer and best known as the cowboy from Village People from 1977 to 1980, and again from 1987 until 1990. Early life. Jones attended William G. Enloe High School in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated in 1970.
Along with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Roy Rogers, Randy Jones was listed as one of the Great Pop Culture Cowboys by Entertainment Weekly in honor of National Cowboy Day July 26. He is featured in SWINDLE Magazine as one of the ICONS of 2008 as well as the 35th Anniversary of PLAYGIRL Magazine.
Mar 19, 2024 · Raised on a North Carolina farm, Randy Jones, now 71, was a natural to become one of the Village People members as their cowboy. “Something just clicked with us. We had that spark,” he told SPIN of their early success.
Jul 23, 2023 · RALEIGH, N.C. — In 1977, Randy Jones found himself in New York’s white-hot disco scene, performing as a backup dancer for Grace Jones of Studio 54 notoriety, sporting a Marlboro Man mustache...
Jun 29, 2019 · Randy Jones, founder member of the iconic group, talks about the cult movie as it finally gets a Blu-ray release in Pride Month.
Aug 30, 2017 · Randy Jones, the original cowboy of the “Village People” is the only member of the disco phenomena recognized for their onstage costumes representing American masculine cultural stereotypes, who has charted as a solo artist, with his newest release, “Hard Times”.
Having already played a rodeo cowboy in a Big Red chewing gum commercial, Jones had some experience exuding a “Marlboro Man” look. So he was cast as the cowboy in Village People, a disco-styled pop band that was integrated in terms of both race and sexual orientation.
