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Few groups balanced sass and tenderness the way TLC did. Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas came out of Atlanta in the early nineties blending R&B, pop, and hip-hop, and songs like "Waterfalls" and "No Scrubs" made them one of the biggest-selling girl groups ever. Lopes died in a car crash in 2002, and the group has carried on as a duo since.
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CrazySexyCool (1994). Their second album is where everything came together: "Creep," "Red Light Special," and "Waterfalls," one of the defining singles of the decade, all sit on this record.
Biography
TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia. The group's best-known line-up was composed of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. The group enjoyed success during the 1990s, with nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles: "Creep", "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs", and "Unpretty". TLC also recorded four multi-platinum albums, including CrazySexyCool (1994), which received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). They became the first R&B group in history to receive the million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for FanMail (1999).
Having sold over 60 million records worldwide, TLC is one of the five best-selling American girl groups of all time. VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 among the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Billboard magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios, as well as the seventh-most-successful act of the 1990s. The group's accolades include five career Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, and five Soul Train Music Awards.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2023Wat3rfallsEP
- 2017TLCAlbum
- 20023DAlbum
- 1999FanMailAlbum
- 1994CrazySexyCoolAlbum
- 1992Ooooooohhh…On the TLC TipAlbum
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