As they looked for a replacement for Jones, the two-member TLC made its first recorded appearance on a track for LaFace act Damian Dame's self-titled 1991 LP. On February 28, 1991, Watkins and Lopes signed production, management, and publishing deals with Pebbitone, with Perri Reid becoming their general manager. In contrast, Watkins's recollection of Jones's departure is that both she and Lopes asked Jones to leave the group before their initial contracts were negotiated. Jones did not want to sign before having the contract reviewed by others and perhaps a lawyer. According to Jones, things began to unravel for her after Pebbles denied the group the opportunity to take home the contracts that Pebbitone had drafted. Reid arranged an audition for them with local record label LaFace Records, run by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Reid's then-husband, Antonio "L.A." Reid.Īntonio Reid saw potential in Watkins and Lopes as performers, but felt that Jones should be replaced. Impressed by the girls, Reid renamed the group TLC, an acronym for the names Tionne, Lisa, and Crystal. Through a connection at the hair salon where Watkins worked, the group eventually managed to arrange an audition with singer Perri "Pebbles" Reid, who had started her own management and production company, Pebbitone. TLC members Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas (left), Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins (right) The group, then named "2nd Nature", was formed of Jones, Watkins, and Lopes, who then began working with producers Jermaine Dupri and Rico Wade on demo tape material.
Jones put out a call for two more girls to join her, eventually answered by Tionne Watkins, a native of Des Moines, Iowa, who had moved to Atlanta with her family at a young age, and Lisa Lopes, a rapper who had just moved to the city from her native Philadelphia with a small keyboard and $750 ($ 1,486 today). In 1990, Atlanta-based record producer Ian Burke and one of his clients, a teenager named Crystal Jones, came up with a concept for a girl group with a tomboyish, hip-hop image, similar to the blend of contemporary R&B and hip hop music of new jack swing act Bell Biv DeVoe. History 1990–1991: Formation and early years In 2022, the group was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
In 2017, they released their eponymous fifth album TLC. Following Lopes' death in 2002, instead of replacing her, the remaining members chose to continue as a duo. The group's accolades include four career Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, and five Soul Train Music Awards.Ģ0 years after their debut, TLC was honored with an award called Outstanding Contribution to Music at the 17th MOBO Awards and with the Legend Award at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Japan. Billboard magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios, as well as the seventh-most successful act of the 1990s. VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music. Having sold over 90 million records worldwide, TLC is the best-selling American girl group. 2015–present: Comeback tours and self-titled studio album.
2007–2014: Hiatus and biographical television film.2002–2006: Lisa Lopes' death, 3D and R U the Girl.1993–1997: CrazySex圜ool, career height and bankruptcy.TLC also became the first R&B group in history to receive the Million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for FanMail (1999). The group also recorded four multi-platinum albums, including CrazySex圜ool (1994), which received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After the addition of Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, they scored nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles: " Creep", " Waterfalls", " No Scrubs", and " Unpretty". Formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1990, the group enjoyed success during the 1990s. TLC is an American girl group whose original line-up consisted of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
0 kommentar(er)
