LC control no. | no 00023045 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Lopes, Lisa |
Variant(s) | Lopes, Left Eye Left-Eye (Musician) Lopes, L. (Lisa) |
See also | Corporate body: TLC (Musical group) |
Biography/History note | Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was a Grammy Award awardee. |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19710527 |
Death date | 20020425 |
Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Place of death | La Ceiba (Atlántida, Honduras) |
Affiliation | Left-Eye Productions (Firm) |
Profession or occupation | Rap musicians Dancers Businesspeople |
Found in | No strings attached, p2000: container (Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes) All-music guide, Mar. 23, 2000 (TLC; Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes) All-music guide, Apr. 24, 2002 (Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, d. Apr. 26, 2002) New York Times, May 3, 2002 (Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes, 30, rapper and songwriter, d. Apr. 25, 2002, Honduras) Lisa Lopes, c2002: p. 107 (Lisa Nicole Lopes b. Philadelphia, May 27, 1971) LaFace Records presents The Platinum collection, p2000: container (Left-Eye) booklet (L. Lopes) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lopes, Lisa (Left Eye); hip hop/rap artist, dancer, entrepreneur; born 27 May 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; resided in Kansas, Panama, New Jersey, and Florida, before settling in Atlanta, Georgia (November 1990); audition for the girl band Second Nature (TLC); the group produced four albums; the album “Oooooooohhh On the TLC Tip” (25 February 1992) produced three top-ten singles: “Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg,” “What about Your Friends,” and “Baby-Baby-Baby”; filed a domestic violence report against her boyfriend Andre Rison (2 September 1992); after a second bout of domestic violence she started a fire (9 June 1994) and was sentenced to five years probation, was ordered to go to rehab for alcoholism, and was charged a fine; wrote the rap lyrics featured as the bridge to TLC's number one hit song “Waterfalls”; the song “CrazySexyCool” won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group (1996); founded Left Eye Productions; the groups third album “FanMail” produced two number one hit singles: “No Scrubs” and “Unpretty” (1999-2000); died 25 April 2002 in La Ceiba, Honduras in a car accident) |