Deee-Lite

American house and dance music group (1987-1996)

Organization Musical Group Q388216

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of: musical group
Official website: www.ladykier.com^[13]

Status and dates

Inception: 1987^[11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1987 BnF data 1986 edition 2026-10-01 · fr-lo ↗

Location

Location of formation: New York City^[12]

Relations

Has part(s): Towa Tei, Miss Kier, Dmitry Brill^[8]^[9]^[10]

More facts +9

Genre: dance music, house music, rock music^[1]^[2]^[3]
Country of origin: United States^[7]
Discography: Deee-Lite discography^[6]
Member category: Category:Deee-Lite members^[17]
Name: Deee-Lite^[16]
Record label: Elektra, Rhino^[4]^[5]
Social media followers: +125000^[18]
Start of work period: 1986^[15]
Topic has template: Template:Deee-Lite^[14]

🏷️ Also known as

en Deee Lite en Deee-Lite en Dee Lite en Dee-Lite it Deee Lite it Dee Lite it Dee-Lite ja ディー・ライト th ดี-ไลต์

🔖 Identifiers · 53

ISNI: 0000000106712963
VIAF cluster ID: 1186145857091122922034
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1186145857091122922034 dbn_authorities 45166060247380321248 edition 2026-10-05 · CC0-1.0
Library of Congress Authorities ID: n91122078
GND ID: 10294402-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Deee-Lite members.png ↗
AZLyrics artist ID: d/deeelite
Album of the Year artist ID: 9347
AllMusic artist ID: mn0000231342
Amazon Music artist ID: B00444AX6Y
Apple Music artist ID: 158336
BBC Things ID: ee8d43dc-8897-439c-abc6-376bafbcce33
BIBSYS ID: 9033758

Show all 53 identifiers +41

Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 139341527
Billboard artist ID: deee-lite
Canadiana Name Authority ID: ncf11844597
DBC author ID: 87097992710629
DR music artist ID: 4000408
Deezer artist ID: 1014
Discogs artist ID: 4119
Facebook username: howdoyousayDEEELITE, deeeliteladymisskier
Freebase ID: /m/01kxb6b
Genius artist ID: Deee-lite
IdRef ID: 158335155
J9U entity ID: 987007406749805171
Jaxsta profile ID: 58f3abce-5540-44d8-a4db-18ca97d69916
Last.fm ID: Deee-Lite
LyricsTranslate ID: deee-lite-lyrics.html
Montreux Jazz Festival person ID: 21307
Mora Artist ID: 73452
Munzinger Pop ID: 02000000481
MusicBrainz artist ID: 83d401e8-3322-4491-98d3-ec3a567c5047
Musik-Sammler.de artist ID: 43564
Muziekweb performer ID: M00000021565
NL CR AUT ID: mzk2003190540
NSK (VIAF) ID: 000419237
NSK ID: 981005800246109366
NTS Radio artist ID: 2865
National Library of Lithuania ID: LNB:BxGI;=Bg
National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9812739549105606
Offizielle Deutsche Charts person ID: 2359
RILM ID: 73992
Rate Your Music artist ID: deee_lite
Shazam artist ID: 158336
Slovak National Library (VIAF) ID: vtls001763259
Songkick artist ID: 379947
SoundCloud ID: deee-lite
Spotify artist ID: 4eQJIXFEujzhTVVS1gIfu5
Tidal artist ID: 13783
Topic's main category: Category:Deee-Lite
WhoSampled artist ID: Deee-Lite
WorldCat Entities ID: E39QH7JmqMt8QfQQy4DfCpqxc6
Yale LUX ID: group/e56f9335-6efd-4224-b682-2b9938c10c5c
YouTube channel ID: UCfWpcfOju6BioTnP9dVWkJQ

📚 Sources · 1

BnF data as of 2026-10-01 · 1 statement · fr-lo Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Licence Ouverte. Source ARK in subject/source_uri; dump 2026-05-04 through 2026-05-10 (generation; directory listing 2026-05-28); retrieved 2026-10-01T14:32:18Z. RDF tokens retained; entity keys/type classification derived. Data includes external enrichment and inferred relationships.

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Dissolved, abolished or demolishedP576

1996 2026-10-01 BnF data (fr-lo) as of 2026-10-01

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Source: BnF data
Edition: 20261001 · as of 2026-10-01 · newer edition 20261102 landed
Licence: fr-lo
Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Licence Ouverte. Source ARK in subject/source_uri; dump 2026-05-04 through 2026-05-10 (generation; directory listing 2026-05-28); retrieved 2026-10-01T14:32:18Z. RDF tokens retain…
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🔗 Connections

Mb:performer of 14

World Clique, Call Me, Dewdrops in the Garden, Dewdrops in the Remix, Good Beat, How Do You Say… Love, Infinity Within, Picnic in the Summertime +6 more

Genre 3

rock music, house music, dance music

Has part(s) 2

Towa Tei, Miss Kier

Record label 2

Elektra, Rhino

← Mb:member of band 2

Towa Tei, Miss Kier

← Performer 2

Groove Is in the Heart, World Clique

Country of origin 1

United States

Instance of 1

musical group

Location of formation 1

New York City

← Producer 1

World Clique

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Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

Type: Group^[19]
Country: US^[20]
Began / founded: 1986^[21]
Ended / dissolved: 1996^[22]
Genre(s): dance, dance-pop, house^[23]
Community tags: dance, dance-pop, house, pop and chart^[24]
MusicBrainz ID: 83d401e8-3322-4491-98d3-ec3a567c5047^[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ Deee-Lite — genre (P136): dance music. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Deee-Lite — genre (P136): house music. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Deee-Lite — genre (P136): rock music. Montreux Jazz Festival Database. Retrieved 2020-09-28. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Deee-Lite — record label (P264): Elektra. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Deee-Lite — record label (P264): Rhino. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Deee-Lite — discography (P358): Deee-Lite discography. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Deee-Lite — country of origin (P495): United States. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Deee-Lite — has part(s) (P527): Towa Tei. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Deee-Lite — has part(s) (P527): Miss Kier. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Deee-Lite — has part(s) (P527): Dmitry Brill. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Deee-Lite — inception (P571): 1987. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Deee-Lite — location of formation (P740): New York City. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Deee-Lite — official website (P856): http://www.ladykier.com/. musik-sammler.de. musik-sammler.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Deee-Lite — topic has template (P1424): Template:Deee-Lite. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Deee-Lite — start of work period (P2031): 1986. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Deee-Lite — name (P2561): Deee-Lite. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Deee-Lite — member category (P6365): Category:Deee-Lite members. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Deee-Lite — social media followers (P8687): 125,000. YouTube API. Retrieved 2025-07-14. wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

[19] ↑ Deee-Lite — Type: Group. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[20] ↑ Deee-Lite — Country: US. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[21] ↑ Deee-Lite — Began / founded: 1986. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[22] ↑ Deee-Lite — Ended / dissolved: 1996. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[23] ↑ Deee-Lite — Genre(s): dance, dance-pop, house. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[24] ↑ Deee-Lite — Community tags: dance, dance-pop, house, pop and chart. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[25] ↑ Deee-Lite — MusicBrainz ID: 83d401e8-3322-4491-98d3-ec3a567c5047. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

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9d ago · Nicereddy · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Location of formation → New York City

Official website → http://www.ladykier.com/

Social media followers → 125,000

Inception → 1987

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