deeelite1988 

Actually I shot this video. Towa was just beside me and grabbing radio casette player. We spent a groovy day at wall street and Brooklyn. Then half year later I made " groove is in the heart"video.Thanks.

She was a star even before she was a star🎉

30 years later and we still love you, Lady Miss Kier!

I hate appearing old and corny, but this was a sign of a simpler, freer and less self-conscious time. If I could turn back time...

from this footage you can realize that groove was really in the heart!

AMAZING watching in 2024!!!

This is such a cute fun video of Dee-Lite vibing with everyday people, especially loved seeing them jaming with the neighborhood kids, just having good clean fun with nothing but positive vibes. Definitely something that's missing in today's crazy world. I'm definitely generation x hear at 56 and Dee-lite was definitely a big part of my life's sound track in my early 20's from clubbing to raving and chilling at home and in the park. Those were the best times! 😊

Deee-Lite made music fun! Letting people on the streets vibe along with them! They were true artists! They truly embraced the "world clique", if you will!! I'd love to see more groups like them come out these days!

they were always ahead of their time

Precious Lady Miss Kier ... The most beautiful and charming lady in the world. thanks for sharing this video.

I live in mortal fear that this will disappear from the innerwebs one day.

Such a good Singer. Back when I was 16, my first Hippy girlfriends said, "You look like Deelite"!! Groove is in the Heart, first came out. Years later, I met Lady Miss Kier in Chicago at, "Big Sexy Bass" a Rave Party and I told Her. She hugged Me and said, "I can see that"!!

My God! For all the times I've viewed this video, how the hell did I not recognize the channel name? Hiroyuki Nakano, the brilliant mind behind the truly iconic "Groove is in the Heart" video! I need to be selfish for a moment and take this opportunity to tell you how big an influence this video had on me. My apologies if it's lengthy. I grew up a little gay boy in northwestern Wisconsin. Far from anything or anyone I could relate to as I entered my teens. I was eleven the first time I saw the Lady Miss KIer appear on the black screen, the words "Faux Fur" above her to make a statement they were passionate about. Like most kids, my mother would find me glued to the television only to tell me for the one hundredth time it would ruin my eyes. With that first explosion of colour and the Lady atop her little go-go box, I was transfixed. And as the camera pushed forward through the dancers, I thought to myself "That's where I belong." Shortly thereafter, I'd gone to my public library and pulled all of the articles on Deee-Lite I could. A Newsweek article described Deee-Lite's lead singer as "a woman impersonating a drag queen." I had no idea what that was, so I asked my mother. She answered honestly and she's regretted it ever since. Upon graduating high school, I reinvented myself entirely with my own drag persona and set out to find the glitterati, those wonderful midnight children from that beautifully trippy music video. I've now been a drag performer for *coughs* twenty-six years and "Groove is in the Heart" is my signature song. Whenever I've performed the song in nightclubs, I've used projected visuals similar to the mesmerizing backgrounds of your video. In my quest for all things Deee-Lite, I knew your name well and in something of a tribute years later, I named one of my drag daughters after you (her name was Kitanah Kim Nakano). Thank you so much for giving so many of us such a vivid time capsule of sorts. The song, while a classic on its own, is almost impossible to listen to without having it evoke bright and beautiful memories of the video you directed instantly flooding the mind. I highly doubt I'm the only kid out there who saw it as a form of escapism whenever they watched it back then. To us, "Groove is in the Heart" was more than just a music video in heavy rotation on MTV - it was a lifeline and one that I'm personally forever grateful for. xoxox Miss Dee-Lovely

Lady Kier is the real deal. There's nobody else like her. Thank you so much for not only taking this video, but for also posting it to youtube.

this is beautiful. passersby joining in the jam, feeling the beat and the vibe. always, deeelite embodied a welcoming energy of nothing but love. true artists, born for light. there will never be another deee lite, and no one can hold a candle to their music nor their utter commitment to acceptance and tolerance

just pure hapiness. Love Brooklyn

I ♥️ love her smile 😊

Man what a goddess! Guy comes in talking shit and she's just like, "let's see it!" Then they both start dancing.

If I’m having a crappy day, I just need to watch this to lift my mood.

This is the best video on RU-vid...the end!!!

This is so beautiful, the way they dance with those kids and everyone's happy and totally into it. Thank you so much for sharing this video. True artists in every sense of the word.

She has the most beautiful voice, they are so incredibly talented ❤

That is just so cute.

Tik Tok could never !

I could watch this over and over! Such happy vibes!!

I'm devastated there's no studio version of this 😢

oh 1988 was my best time also !! oh miss kier you are sooo beautiful !!!

Ngl I have such a crush on Dmitry like he's the type of guy I'd love to have as a boyfriend. Hes quirky, colorful, silly, and creative af

i just wanna be there and dance... hahaha

This is gorgeous. My favorite band from this era.

It was a down-to-earth video- LOVED IT!!!

Damn, Lady Miss Keir really is so flawless, and that voice was f hers isn’t ‘1 hit wonder” good.. its actually skilled, soulful, unique and beautiful ❣️🙌🏽🙌🏽

Thanx for posting this rear footage. It's fun to see Lady Kier en Dmitri have fun with the people on the street. Funckadelic!

This is so sweet, so damn sweet.

I didnt find out about them until the late 90s.i fell in love instantly.

Love this! Wish Kier would release this as a song :)

A deeelovely day. Thank you for sharing this with us. Peace and love

Loved watching this blast from the past. Also fascinated watching when the camera meant something different to passersby. A little apprehensive to shine in front of it, now these days, cameras in public is a almost the norm.

such a beautiful energy

Love this track! Loved Deee-Lite since the beginning. Lady Miss Kier with the ever beautiful voice. Thank you so much for sharing! Never understood why they were considered a one hit wonder cuz far as I knew they had catalogues of music in their discography. Was fortunate and happened to be out at a club in Vail and DJ Dimitri was spinning that night. It was amazingly euphoric and the place was packed with the best dance energy. Such incredibly good times. 😌💙🖤✨

SO INNOCENT.

They were like the first youtubers!

wonderful thanx🤩

this is just amazing! loved every single sec of it.

This is absolutely amazing! I could watch this over and over....LOVE!

Still to this day there will never be a group this mesmerizing and original and still sound as new as the day they recorded it.😍😎✌💖💞

Beautiful ❤

What an amazing woman the way she handled that crack head saying she couldn't dance...

Wow. Just wow. What an incredible piece of video. And what a time to be alive. I have to say ... Seeing Dmitri with his hair out ... he looks like Gene Simmons' long lost brother!

im obsessed with this.. love to hear a super funky well produced version of this

This is precious ❤❤❤

Oh man this is so Cool! I was and still am a great fan of deee lite. That vibe that started late 80’s and became really predominant in the 90’s you still feel in this video and it was real. We need some of that now a days. So much hate and polarization now a days. In the 90’s it felt like the future is good the future is bright, we had harmony love and peace.

Just Deeeeeeee Liiiiiite ! Deee-Lite 🎉

i love this group!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So sweet & lovely!!

Legends....just so uplifting and fun. Would get the most stiff person to get up and groove!

What a wonderful video!

Love it..more of a funky sound in this..I think Deee Lite and Jamiroquai have a certain symmetry 🎹

Something so Awesome bout this VDO !

Amazing Perfomance....She is a Queennnn...Brazilians Love You

That was so much fun to watch... just think goofing up on the sidewalk and people can enjoy it 30 years later… Crazy

People dancing and having a good time like this on the streets would have the cops called on them in 2022 because some angry person would get offended by the fun being had. People just cant have any fun of any kind anymore because they gave up on freedom for safe spaces that aren’t safe. At least I was able to have fun when I was young without fear of harm. Deee-Lite and Lady Kier was so talented and fearless and it really showed through their music.

That bass though...Nice!!!

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Wow!

THIS IS awesome!!!! thanks for posting and thanx for taping!!!! Love this woman!!!!

Love this woman

Thank you!!! That was touching to tears! Still wiping... ^_^ LOVE!

This made my day. What a treasure. It transported me.

Fantástico esse vídeo da memória e do processo criativo dessa banda.

Deee-Lite is the perfect example of being INSPIRED by classic music and style and updating it for the time they're in, not just blatantly ripping off or sampling without any understanding of the source.

When Sesame Street was cool 😎

Damn, she is all in! In her voice, and in her moves. People CAN sing without autotune or melodyne! Talented people anyway.

What an awesome video!!! Brings back such great memories! Thanks so much for uploading and sharing it with us.

I love this! Video captures such a fleeting but golden moment in time. What is that song!?

Love her

Pure Love in creative form. Thank you.

Completely priceless.

It's crazy how some artists are ahead of everyone else.

That was soo awesome

This is so fun and what a groove! The positivity is off the charts

Thanks! I never heard this... Love from Brazil ♥️🇧🇷

this is amazing... thanks a lot!

2022 still love them!

This was amazing to see….I was the same age as some of those kids in the video…wearing my Guess overalls in nyc! A time capsule

wow. love this.

God I love her!

Why tf was this not released as a song - bloody travesty - we should petition Lady Kier to damn well re-record it and release it! 😅

Hidden gem on this site

Nice video pure talent

Lovely!

Thank you for sharing this video!

Thank you. Such a fun video - so free, none of the tension and unpleasantness so common today. Groove is in the Heart was the first music video I ever watched (that or that Stacy Q song, and "Sara" by Jefferson Starship).

Forever lovin' you Dimitri and Miss Lady Kier!

Timeless!!! love this

OMG an authentic 1980's NYC. I was there too kids.. just groovin in a different hood at that moment.. I did love, do love and will love your music forevaaaa.

this reminds me of the time I saw the dance group Electric Boogaloo appearance on Soul Train, back in 1979....it's very nostalgic. Only thing missing was ReRun dancing in the background with them.. lol Those kids had no idea, who they were dancing with, but they were having the time of their life.

I am very grateful for this post! A historic view to the video: In 1989, after an unprecedented ~15-year rise, the New York real estate prices were smashed down to the ground. Nonetheless, Housing companies still were widely unregulated and left buildings unmaintained, speculating that there will come some opportunistic investors with pockets full of money. That created some unrest among those populating less settled areas of NYC and sparked a certain 'urban' spirit to reclaim the streets and fill them with self-determined live. Some of the communities' urban politics from the 1970/1980 years were still immanent (i.e. low regulation to run a business or a relatively liberal drug policy) and thus attracted young people from all over the world ('the melting pot'). The New York art scene, nurtured from universities and art schools, (once again) had to overcome white and male predominance but (contrary to late 1960's) there were icons to follow and to inherit. Just recall underground movements that are part of pop culture today: "NY Hardcore" spread everywhere, the House music scene grew strong, the Harings and Basquiats searched the spotlight. At last, in my opinion with a strong influence, the AIDS experience shocked the society thoroughly and put established outlooks under question. What is safe when the most intimate form of human behavior isn't? In the end, a strong and appealing "Let's challenge boundaries" mindset could evolve, right? It's an innocent time, viewed from the present, but in first place, it is some real and human way to live your life the way you feel is good and justified.

I love Deelite even more. ❤🙏❤

impresionante, muy buen video, gracias...