Joy villa get your freedom free#

“I was like, one day I’m going to move to New York, I’m going to move to LA, I’m going to make movies, I want to be in TV. She graduated high school at 16 and by then, had already had nearly a year of producing television for the local youth network with Comcast Cablevision. Politics was not a divisive thing back then, Villa remembers. Life was idyllic in Santa Barbara, California, where she joined musical theater from a young age, and sat on the student council, and had many friends from military families.

A very old-fashioned African American lady,” Villa said. My mom was a stay-at-home mom, church singer, writer, artist my mom would create rugs and needlepoint and knit.

Her mother was apolitical, but had many relatives who were Democrats. Her father was a preacher, fundraiser, and a salesman, and very much a Republican. Villa said she grew up with very conservative, American values, although she didn’t make much of it at the time.

Joy villa get your freedom free#

“It’s funny, conservatives are really the free speech fighters,” Villa said. Don’t limit my speech because you don’t like it or you disagree with it.” Just respect me-I’m not even saying believe in what I say,'” she said. “I’m fighting every day to say ‘Let me be who I am. She experiences the irony of the current cultural landscape daily and adds that she just recently released a single, “Freedom (Fight for It),” a song about freedom of speech, and fans are flooding her inbox with messages and screenshots of how it’s being censored on iTunes. Villa has had a front-row seat in witnessing the upending of values in recent decades, having gone from being a conservative preacher’s daughter to a left-leaning liberal to one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters and realizing many things she once believed were lies. That’s because being a conservative in Hollywood tends to raise eyebrows-and also sometimes attracts death threats. They know I’m a conservative, they know I’m a Trump supporter, and they love that about me.” Now, the chart-topping singer-songwriter, model, actress, and fashionista is currently starring in a romantic comedy, and feels the need to add: “ pro-America. Some of her most vivid and affirming memories from childhood are those of being alone in her room, writing songs that she could then share with the world. She has lived the creative process through and through in her lifelong journey of transformation. Joy Villa is, at her very core, a performer.