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202333 minGdocumentary

Taking Back the Groove

202333 minGdocumentary

Bronx-born disco superstar Richie Weeks and his manager Jerome Derradji recount their fight to reclaim the rights to Weeks' music and restore his legacy.

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Celia Aniskovich

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Bronx-born disco superstar Richie Weeks and his manager Jerome Derradji recount their fight to reclaim the rights to Weeks' music and restore his legacy.

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Taking Back The Grove tells the story of Bronx-born, disco superstar Richie Weeks, whose hit song Rock Your World made it to No. 1 on the dance charts in the 80s. Like many Black artists throughout American recording history, his talent was strip-mined to enrich white-owned record labels. Weeks and his manager Jerome Derradji narrate the story of how they clawed back the rights to Weeks' music and the ongoing fight to restore his legacy and share his music.

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