Singer Joy Villa, who donned pro-Trump and pro-life gowns at the past two editions of the music awards ceremony, continued to make a right-leaning political statement with her Grammys 2019 ensemble.
The musician showed up on the red carpet for the awards show sporting a “build the wall” gown designed by Designer Desi Lee Allinger-Nelson of Desi Designs Couture, complete with barbed wire on her shoulders, a spiky headpiece and cloak designed to look like steel.
Villa is a 26-year-old singer who, according to her website, goes by the performance name “Princess Joy Villa” and moonlights as an author, model, and vegan health coach.
“When Trump came in the picture, at first I hated him,” Villa said. “All my music friends hated him and wanted Bernie. I thought ‘Bernie looks good; he seems like a cool dude.’ To me, the Republicans weren’t cool. And Trump ended up becoming so obnoxious and so in our face. I was living outside of the U.S. and I came back in 2016 and I thought,’ ‘I’ve got to check this guy out.’ If you had asked me, I would have said, ‘Yeah, I’m a Democrat’ and I was a registered Independent. I was raised conservative, but I became more liberal for a while and I voted for Obama.”
Then Villa said she started to research and watch Trump’s speeches and says that she started to agree with his positions “against better judgment” and decided to vote for him.
“I was a secret Trumper for months,” she says.
“When I decided to wear the Trump dress, I figured that most people would try to ignore me, they’d be so upset. But the rebel in me was like, ‘I have to come out and support the President.'”
Joy Villa attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards
Joy Villa attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards
Last year, Villa wore a provocative pro-life ensemble featuring a graphic image of a fetus, designed by Filipino immigrant Andre Soriano.
She paired the white gown, emblazoned with a red fetus encircled by rainbow hues that Villa hand-painted herself, with a tiara and her handbag was inscribed with the words, “Choose Life.”
Joy Villa wears an anti-abortion dress at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
Villa also courted controversy in 2017 when she stepped out in a dress featuring President Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” with “Trump” stamped on the train, also designed by Soriano.
Joy Villa wears a MAGA dress.
Her father Joseph Villa was an actor as a child and his parents owned Pla-Boy Liquor in Hollywood in the ’70s and ’80s; he later became a Christian minister and was an “overt Republican and Reaganite” says Villa.
A vegan, she first attended the Grammys in 2015, where she wore an orange dress made of recycled construction “snow fencing.”
And in 2016, she wore a “dark skeletal outfit” that synched up with a single she had released called “Empty.”
Besides being a Trump supporter, Villa is also a member of The Church of Scientology.