Deee-Lite

Deee-Lite
General information
origin	United States
Genre (s)	House , dance-pop
founding	1986
resolution	1996
Last occupation
singing	Lady Miss Kier
Keyboard, guitar	Supa DJ Dmitry
Mix, bass	DJ Ani
former members
production	Jungle DJ Towa-Tei

Deee-Lite was a pop music group formed in New York in 1986. Her biggest hit in the summer of 1990 was the track Groove Is in the Heart , which was co-created with Q-Tip by A Tribe Called Quest and Bootsy Collins .

The band included Lady Miss Kier (Kierin Kirby), Supa DJ Dmitry (Dmitry Brill) and Jungle DJ Towa Tei (Doug Wa-Chung). In 1994 Towa Tei left the band and started a solo career. He was replaced by DJ Ani (Ani Q. Schempf).

In spring 2003, Lady Miss Kier sued the Sega company because a character in the video game Space Channel 5 was modeled after her person.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1990	World clique	-	-	-	UK14th gold (20 weeks)UK	US20th gold (41 weeks)US	R&B34 (28 weeks) R&B	First published: July 31, 1990
1992	Infinity Within	DE88 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH38 (1 week) CH	UK37 (1 week) UK	US67 (8 weeks) US	-	First published: June 19, 1992
1994	Dewdrops in the Garden	-	-	-	UK78 (1 week) UK	US127 (4 weeks) US	-	First published: July 12, 1994

Compilations

• 1995: Dewdrops in the Remix
• 1996: Sampladelic Relics & Dancefloor Oddities
• 2001: The Very Best of Deee-Lite

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B	Dance
1990	Groove Is in the Heart World Clique	DE17 (20 weeks) DE	AT25 (3 weeks) AT	CH13 (11 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (15 weeks)UK	US4th gold (23 weeks)US	R&B28 (14 weeks) R&B	Dance1 (13 weeks) Dance	First published: July 1990
	Power of Love World Clique	DE43 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK25 (7 weeks) UK	US47 (10 weeks) US	R&B54 (7 weeks) R&B	Dance1 (16 weeks) Dance	First published: November 1990
1991	How Do You Say… Love?	-	-	-	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: February 1991
	ESP World Clique	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dance7 (8 weeks) Dance	First published: March 1991
	Good Beat / Riding On Through World Clique	-	-	-	UK53 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	Dance1 (12 weeks) Dance	First published: April 1991
1992	Runaway Infinity Within	-	-	CH25 (4 weeks) CH	UK45 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	Dance1 (10 weeks) Dance	First published: June 1992
	Pussycat Meow Infinity Within	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dance6 (12 weeks) Dance	First published: November 1992
1994	Party Happenin People Dewdrops in the Garden	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dance30 (7 weeks) Dance	First published: May 1994
	Bring Me Your Love Dewdrops in the Garden	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dance1 (12 weeks) Dance	First published: June 1994
	Picnic in the Summertime Dewdrops in the Garden	-	-	-	UK43 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: July 1994
	Call Me Dewdrops in the Garden	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dance1 (13 weeks) Dance	First published: December 1994

More singles

• 1990: What Is Love?
• 1992: Thank You Everyday
• 1992: I Had a Dream I Was Falling Through a Hole in the Ozone Layer

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	-	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × gold2	-	500,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × gold4th	-

swell

1. ↑ Facts and data on Deee-Lite
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US
3. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0898201864 .

Web links

• Deee-Lite at Allmusic (English)
• Deee-Lite at Discogs (English)
• Discography on rateyourmusic.com
• Singles Discography on 45cat.com
• Charts and data