Alex Briley (born Alexander Briley, 12 April 1951, in Harlem, New York) performed the "G.I." role in the disco era music group, Village People. is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Harlem (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The abbreviation G.I. or GI is most commonly used to shorten government issue, and has different meanings depending on the part of speech in which it is used. ... Discothèque redirects here. ... Village People were a concept disco group formed in the late 1970s. ...

Briley was raised in Harlem and later Mount Vernon, New York. A minister's son, he sang in church from an early age and studied voice at the University of Hartford. Briley performed with jazz flautist Bobbi Humphrey and was featured in the off-Broadway shows Music Magic and Althol Fugard's drama A Lesson From Aloe. For other uses, see Harlem (disambiguation). ... For other places with the same name, see Mount Vernon (disambiguation). ... The University of Hartford, often called UHA or UHart, was founded in 1877, and is a private, independent, and nonsectarian coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... A flautist, flutist, or flute player is a musician who plays the flute. ... Bobbi Humphrey is a female jazz flautist whose music style cover fusion, jazz-funk and soul-jazz. ...

Briley was introduced to producer/composer Jacques Morali by Village People member Victor Willis. Briley arranged most of the vocals and harmonies used by Village People. He originally performed in jeans and a t-shirt but he took the role of a soldier for the album Cruisin' in 1978 and when the group recorded "In The Navy" in 1979 he appeared as a sailor. In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Jacques Morali was a disco composer. ... Victor Edward Willis (born on July 1, 1951 in Dallas, Texas) is a singer, songwriter, actor; and original lead singer of the disco group Village People. ... The human voice consists of sound made by a human using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying and screaming. ... This article is about musical harmony. ... This article is about the type of clothing. ... T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... For the Smokey Robinson song, see Cruisin (song). ... See In the Navy (film) for the 1941 Abbott & Costello film. ...

In 2004 he was reportedly living in Westchester, New York and was a member of the Board of Directors of Sixuvus Ltd. (the Village People corporation). Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. ... Sixuvus Ltd. ...