Gloria Gaynor Samuel L. Jackson, Charles Barkley, and Spike Lee sang "I Will Survive". In 2016, Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" was selected for induction into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. On May 6, 2017, Gloria Gaynor performed with her band at the Library of Congress' celebration of disco music at Bibliodiscotheque, a disco dance party in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building. Due to the devastation wreaked by hurricane Harvey on the state of Texas in August 2017, Gaynor rewrote the lyrics to "I Will Survive," changing the title to "Texas Will Survive," and posted video of
I Am What I Am (Village People song) to "stump for substitute utopias...where there's plenty of 'unity,' 'happiness,' 'liberation' and 'togetherness.' "Key West" has been included on several Village People greatest hits compilation albums. I Am What I Am (Village People song) "I Am What I Am" is a song written by Victor Willis, Henri Belolo, Peter Whitehead and Jacques Morali that was first released by the Village People on their 1978 album "Macho Man". It was also released as a single with "Key West," also from "Macho man", as the b-side in some countries including Germany and the UK. It did not chart in those countries, but