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There wouldn’t beryllium a TLC without Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. The epic miss radical down songs similar “Creep,” “Waterfalls,” and “No Scrubs” took R&B, soul, pop, and hip-hop and enactment them unneurotic for a winning combination. TLC — Left Eye, alongside Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and “Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas – was the soundtrack to a generation, a feat that volition beryllium explored done Lifetime’s caller documentary, TLC Forever.
“The revolutionary top-selling American pistillate radical of each time, who broke boundaries, influenced an full generation, and survived against each odds, T-Boz and Chilli archer their communicative for the archetypal clip successful this diagnostic documentary,” reads the description. Sadly, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes volition not beryllium portion of this celebration. She tragically perished successful 2002. Read connected astir what happened to her and much astir who she was.
Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes successful 2000 (Shutterstock)
Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes Was A Member Of TLC.
Lisa Lopes (b. May 27, 1971) was calved successful the Logan conception of North Philadelphia, the girl of an Army Staff sergeant and a seamstress. Her aboriginal beingness was afloat of alteration and disharmony. Her household moved often, her parents joined and divorced each different twice, and Lisa often was near to instrumentality attraction of her younger siblings. ” The magnitude of alteration that I went done would astir apt thrust a mean idiosyncratic nuts,” she recalled, per Rolling Stone.
In 1990, she moved to Atlanta to prosecute a vocation of dancing successful euphony videos. Within a twelvemonth of relocating, she was portion of a miss group, archetypal called “2nd Nature,” earlier rebranding arsenic TLC. The archetypal C stood for founding subordinate Crystal Jones, who near the radical during the enactment stage. Soon, their debut single, “Aint 2 Proud 2 Beg,” blew up, making the radical a star. In 1994, they shifted their representation from aboriginal hip-hop, released CrazySexyCool, and became bigger than ever with songs “Creep,” “Red Light Special,” and “Waterfalls.” 1999 saw the merchandise of FanMail and their signature song, “No Scrubs.”
However, Lisa began to explicit vexation with the radical astatine that time, noting that her relation had been constricted to the occasional eight-bar rap and that respective of the songs didn’t person her vocals. After a backmost and forth, Lisa challenged Tionne and Rozonda, saying they would each make solo albums for “a 3-CD set” arsenic a mode for the fans to determine who was the best.
While the radical ne'er formally disbanded, Lisa began pursuing her ain solo career, appearing connected songs by Mel C and NSYNC.
Lisa Lopes astatine the 2001 Teen Choice Awards Ceremony (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)
How Did Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes Get Her Nickname?
The nickname “Left Eye” seemingly originated astatine a young sanction erstwhile a then-boyfriend noticed that her near oculus was somewhat larger than her right, according to PEOPLE. Entertainment Weekly reported that successful her teens, Lisa would beryllium complimented much connected her near eye, being told “that [particular] orb was much distinctive.”
She adopted the moniker and famously wore a condom implicit her near oculus to beforehand harmless enactment successful 1991. She would besides accentuate her near oculus by wearing the aforesaid achromatic constitution that shot players use.
What Happened To Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes?
Lisa Lopes died connected April 25, 2002, successful an automobile mishap successful Honduras, according to The New York Times. The mishap happened successful Roma, a fashionable abrogation spot. Her spokesperson, Jay Morose, said she was down the instrumentality of a rented Mitsubishi SUV erstwhile she mislaid power of the car. The constabulary said she was driving astatine astir 85 mph and that the SUV veered disconnected the roadworthy and turned implicit respective times. Lisa was thrown from the conveyance successful the crash. She died astatine the country from caput and thorax wounds.
Her spokesperson said that determination were 7 passengers: 3 members of the R&B group, Egypt, who Lisa was managing; Lisa’s sister, Raina, and brother; and 2 video producers. The passengers were treated astatine a adjacent infirmary for breached bones and different injuries. ‘We person genuinely mislaid our sister,” said the remaining members of TLC successful a statement.
Why Did Lisa Lopes Go To Honduras?
Honduras was a “frequent retreat from the demands of the euphony business, a sanctuary wherever [Lisa] could commune with nature, sip drinks brewed from histrion bark and, arsenic she enactment it, ‘disappear into the bush for days,'” wrote PEOPLE after her death.
Lisa archetypal visited Honduras successful 1998 aft Hurricane Mitch devastated the country. She returned to beforehand literacy successful the state and bargain 3 acres adjacent La Ceiba to make a children’s camp.
Does Lisa Lopes Have A Daughter?
Lisa was famously arrested successful 1994 aft inadvertently mounting occurrence to the mansion she shared with Andre Rison. Lisa claimed that Andrew had beaten her aft a nighttime out, and she would pain his sneakers successful retaliation. The occurrence got retired of control, and she was yet sentenced to 5 years probation and ordered to acquisition an intoxicant attraction program. Meeting a struggling parent successful rehab impacted Lisa, and she adopted the mother’s girl – Snow Lopes. Lisa besides adopted a son, Jamal Lopes.
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