Randy "The Cowboy" Jones

Randy Jones is an actor, author, American Music Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist. He is the original Cowboy and a founding member of Village People. In his career spanning four decades before, with and since Village People, he has sold more than 100 million units and garnered in excess of a quarter billion views on YouTube. Perhaps best known for his hits with the group, like “Macho Man”, “In the Navy”, “Go West” and “Y.M.C.A,” he has earned 75 Gold and Platinum record certificates, toured worldwide, starred in the camp classic film, “Can’t Stop the Music”, made the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine and in 2008, was honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

Randy attended William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated in 1970. While there, he was a founder of Enloe’s Drama Club, which was then called Amicus Scaena, Latin for “friend of scene” or “friend of theatre.” He then studied at North Carolina School of the Arts before moving to New York.