2002 - Hundreds of admirers line up outside a large suburban Atlanta church to attend the funeral of TLC singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who died in a car crash the week before.
She rarely addressed the fire in interviews, and only spoke about it at length in the 2007 VH1 documentary The Last Days of Left Eye, released five years after she died in a car crash in Honduras, and assembled from video diaries recorded during her trip. As she explains in the doc: ...
Freddy Cuevas
As a jack of all trades, Left Eye was a trained pianist and often showcased her skills when performing with TLC. InThe Last Days of Left Eye, a documentary that captured her final days before dying in a car crash in Honduras in 2002, Left Eye described coming from a multi-talented and...
Left Eye released her album Supernova in 2001 but it was only released internationally as the low sales led to its US release being cancelled. While working on an album for Death Row Records as N.I.N.A. and recording for TLC’s fourth album, Left Eye was killed in a car crash in ...
For all of TLC’s foresight, though, no one could have known back then that Fanmail would be the last album that T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli would record together. Three years later, a tragic car crash in Honduras would take 30-year-old Left Eye’s life. But her spirit shines ...
The headline ("TLC fires it up – Burning up the charts, burning down the house"), and the outfits provided by Vibe, referenced an incident between Left Eye and her boyfriend, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Andre Rison. They had a volatile relationship. In June 1994, Lopes intentionally set...
a new documentary that explores the legacy of the iconic R&B group. Together with the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Chilli and T-Boz, 53, became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Since Left Eye’s 2002 death in a car crash at age 30, her bandmates have c...
” The latter is the song most obviously written about Left Eye, who was the eminently unique “crazy” in their CrazySexyCool trio before her death in a car crash in 2002. “I lost some friends, some friends I didn’t want to,” Chilli and T-Boz duet sublimely. But “American ...
For all of TLC’s foresight, though, no one could have known back then that Fanmail would be the last album that T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli would record together. Three years later, a tragic car crash in Honduras would take 30-year-old Left Eye’s life. But her spirit shines ...