Remembering Left Eye, 10 Years after her death

It was 10 years on April 25 when hip-hop and R&B lost rapper, singer, dancer and songwriter, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes who died in a fatal car accident in Roma, Honduras at the age of 30. Lopes was working on a documentary of her "spiritual journey" and headed to herbal healing village, The Usha Herbal Resource Institute, when she lost control of her rented Mitsubishi, veered off the road and turned over several times. Lopes, best known as being the outspoken, feisty rapper in R&B group TLC, died on the scene. The multi-platinum group was behind such hits as "No Scrubs," "Waterfalls" and "Unpretty." The act's 1999 album "FanMail" debuted on top of the Billboard 200 and Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. TLC sold 15.6 million albums in the U.S. and is the second-biggest selling female R&B group of the past 20 years. TLC revamped the girl group in the '90s and paved way for other acts like Destiny's Child.

 

…surviving members plans reunion tour, new album

In honor of the 20th anniversary of TLC, surviving members Tionne " T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas have a new album, a VH1 made-for-TV movie series, and a reunion tour in the works. A reunion tour may seem unfathomable without the group's late third member, Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes, which is why the duo has decided to follow in the footsteps of Dr. Dre and his revolutionary Coachella performance. T-Boz and Chilli announced that in celebration of their anniversary, Left-Eye will be gracing the reunion tour stage through image projections on a big screen -- however, the duo intends to use archival footage, not a newly generated digital performance.

"The word anniversary means a celebration. For us, her death will never be a celebration, it's still something that hurts," Watkins said in a statement, with Thomas adding, "Lisa is our sister. You never get over losing a family member. We love her and we miss her and that isn't ever going to change."