Who is Joy Villa, the controversial MAGA-loving Scientologist singer known for her pro-Trump Grammys gowns?

One of the astir high-profile events successful the world, the Grammy Awards boasts an awesome impermanent database comprising chart-topping musicians and almighty grounds institution executives. 

For the remainder of us, scoring an invitation to the Grammys is adjacent to impossible; the glitzy awards ceremonial is retired of bounds for everyone but category nominees, peculiar guests of the Recording Academy, and voting members. 

Which makes the lawsuit of Joy Villa - the MAGA-loving Scientologist vocalist who has walked the reddish carpet aggregate times contempt ne'er receiving a information - truthful bizarre. 

The 38-year-old from California has been a near-constant fixture astatine the awards amusement since 2017, erstwhile Joy archetypal made headlines for wearing a tribute gown successful honour of President Donald Trump's archetypal term. 

Joy's connection red, white, and bluish formal - emblazoned with Trump's battlecry 'Make America Great Again' - sparked a Twitter frenzy.  

The pursuing year, Joy drew akin disapproval erstwhile she turned up connected the reddish carpet wearing an anti-abortion gown, with the hand-painted representation of a fetus radiating colors of the rainbow.

The pursuing year, she dressed up arsenic President Trump's longed-for borderline partition -  implicit with barbed ligament and carrying a Make America Great Again handbag - earlier donning yet different arguable gown successful 2020. 

While she steered wide of the limelight during Joe Biden's presidency, Trump's biggest protagonist stormed the Grammy Awards successful solemnisation of his 2nd word successful the Oval Office. 

This time, her maximalist manner triggered little outrage and much confusion, arsenic baffled X users questioned wherefore the little-known vocalist from Orange County was invited to the show. 

'I'm being serious,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote. 'Who the hellhole is Joy Villa? She's been invited to the Grammys astir each twelvemonth for the past decennary and does this each time. 

'She's a "singer" with 1,108 monthly listeners connected Spotify. Does anyone cognize what's going on?' 

Another X idiosyncratic noted: 'Every year, she pulls up successful a connection dress, trends for a day, and past vanishes until the adjacent Grammys.' 

A 3rd idiosyncratic added: 'Joy Villa showing up to the Grammys is simply a contented astatine this point, similar questionable manner choices and awkward acceptance speeches.' 

'Why is she adjacent invited?' different remark read. 'My person has much monthly listeners and he's mediocre af.' 

Slowly, the disorder gave mode to instrumentality theories trying to explicate Joy's recurring beingness astatine the Grammy Awards - with societal media users highlighting her 'nepo baby' status, transportation to Scientology, and years-long Trump advocacy. 

'I've work 2 antithetic stories astir her,' 1 remark read. 'One that she's conscionable a walking advertisement for MAGA and they bargain her tickets [to the Grammy Awards], and the different is she's a "nepo baby" and she's her uncle's plus-one origin he's immoderate jazz musician.' 

According to her Wikipedia page, Joy is the grandniece of American jazz vocalist and Miles Davis collaborator Kenny Hagood, who shared a girl with Alice Coltrane. 

Kenny died successful 1989 astatine the property of 63 so, arsenic 1 X idiosyncratic pointed out, Joy's transportation to the vocalist astir apt doesn't person 'anything to bash with her Grammys appearances but it is random'. 

Joy was calved connected April 25, 1986, successful Orange County, California, to an Italian-Argentine father, Reverend Joseph Villa, and African-American mother, gospel vocalist Mildred Angela Pierce Villa. 

According to her website, the vocalist and YouTuber wears galore hats - from a 'certified fittingness trainer' and 'Bikini Body Competitor' to a 'vibrant and energetic filmmaker' and 'humanitarian connected a ngo to marque the satellite a amended place'. 

However, she is champion known for being 1 of President Trump's astir outspoken supporters and a 'Christian Scientologist'. 

In a 2019 interview, Joy said: 'Christianity is simply a faith-based relationship, my religion and spot is successful Jesus Christ, and God, and going to eden aft I die.

'Scientology is simply a workable philosophy,' she explained, crediting her grooming for improving her life. 

Joy - who goes by Princess Joy Villa and refers to her fandom arsenic 'Joytribe - has reportedly toured 25 countries including Denmark, France, Japan, South Korea, and Mexico portion making pitstops astatine Scientology centres successful those countries. 

She was antecedently joined to Danish lensman and chap Scientologist Thorsten Overgaard, whose relation with the Church was elaborate successful a 2011 nonfiction published by Scientology Newsroom. 

In a station connected his blog The Underground Bunker, American writer Tony Ortega reported that 'Joy and her then-fiance Overgaard became “Patron Meritorious” donors' successful 2016 aft having 'given astatine slightest $250,000 to the church'. 

He besides noted the erstwhile mates were 'were joined astatine Scientology’s holiest site, the Fort Harrison Hotel successful Clearwater, Florida, connected Christmas Day 2016'. 

In 2022, a photograph of Joy taken successful Brighton, UK, was reportedly shared online; the drawback showed her sat astatine a array allegedly recruiting radical to the Church of Scientology. 

Joy aboriginal documented her sojourn to Brighton successful a station connected Instagram connected June 15, 2022, with the vocalist telling her followers astir a edifice called 'Really Happy Chickn' wherever she enjoyed a vegan chickenhearted burger. 

Reacting to Joy's astir caller Grammys appearance, 1 X idiosyncratic wondered whether her transportation to the Church had earned her an invitation fixed 'Scientology's illustration wrong the amusement industry'. 

Over the years, respective celebrties person been associated with the religion, including John Travolta, Elizabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, Laura Prepon - and Tom Cruise, considered 1 of the Church's astir celebrated advocates. 

Two years aft her divorcement from Overgaard, Joy posted a matrimonial advertisement connected a connection committee for scientologists successful 2021. 

The ad, which was reshared connected X/Twitter, work that Joy's perfect beingness spouse indispensable marque 'over $100K a year', 'is precise overmuch into steadfast eating and carnal fitness' and 'follows the Way to Happiness' - referring to the 1980 publication written by Scientology laminitis Ron L Hubbard. 

Last November, Joy confirmed she had joined 'my champion friend' and 'the emotion of my life' and her tattoo creator Jeremy Lifsey aft '16 years of friendship'. 

'Through everything, God answered my prayers and sent maine the cleanable imperfect antheral for my imperfect cleanable love. I emotion HARD and I americium nary picnic to woody with,' she wrote connected Instagram. 

Joy's societal media illustration is simply a haphazard reflection of her spiritual and governmental beliefs - overmuch similar her puzzling Grammys appearances implicit the years. 

For instance, the arguable instrumentalist spoke astir her emotion for Jesus portion wearing a reddish Maga-inspired chapeau - paired with a golden formal and a Dogecoin crypto necklace - for this year's ceremony. 

Elsewhere, she defended President Trump's arguable migration policies and mass deportations enacted by authorities implicit the past week, amid wide protests crossed the state successful effect this past weekend.

'I deliberation that the ones that are being deported should beryllium deported,' Villa, who is besides an histrion and YouTuber, told The Hollywood Reporter connected the reddish carpet. 

'I emotion to spot rapists, quality traffickers deported. I don't privation to spot them here.'

A faction of X users puzzled by Joy's Grammys appearances theorised they were a 'walking advertisement for MAGA' who bargain her tickets successful a bid to beforehand the President's policies. 

This year, she walked the reddish carpet donning a golden gown with spherical shapes, ample dangling transverse earrings and a reddish chapeau (similar to Trump's signature 'Make America Great Again' cap) with the operation 'THE HAT STAYS ON.'

Joy said she would not region the headdress nether immoderate circumstances, pointing astatine the failed assassination effort connected Trump past summertime successful Butler, Pennsylvania. 

'The chapeau stays connected - they tried to termination Trump - he's inactive alive, convey God,' Villa said of the incident, successful which attendee Corey Comperatore was tragically killed by the gunfire, portion 2 different men, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, were injured.

Villa told the outlet, 'Because they tried to get escaped of Trump and present he's inactive here, this hat's not going anywhere. Like the red-hat service that we've seen.'