But they also addressed more serious topics, such as the dangers of AIDS in "Waterfalls," and unrealistic beauty expectations in "Unpretty." 1 smashes "Waterfalls," "No Scrubs" and "Creep." Their songs often delivered a message of female empowerment, with sassy, sexy lyrics. 1 hits, garnering 12 compared with TLC's four. The Supremes are the top all-female group in terms of No. The Atlanta-based R&B group is the best-selling female group in history in terms of album sales, having sold 21 million. "We are sisters, we had been together for more than 10 years," Watkins said Friday in a tearful phone interview with MTV's "Total Request Live." The group had been working on the follow-up to their Grammy-winning, triple-platinum album, "Fanmail," released in 1999. TLC members Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, said they were devastated by the death. Lopes had visited the Villa Usha natural medicine compound in Jutiapa, which features thermal baths and other treatments, since 1998, Cole said. Lopes' body is being flown back to her hometown of Atlanta on Saturday. Several other people in the car were taken to a hospital in La Ceiba for non-life-threatening head, arm and leg injuries, Cole said. The police inspector said the seriousness of the accident indicated that Lopes was driving at an excessive speed, but he could not say exactly how fast she was driving. Lopes was trying to pass a car on the highway when a truck approached from the other lane, forcing her to veer sharply to the left, striking two trees and then flipping over several times, Cole said. La Ceiba Police Inspector John Cole said Lopes was traveling from the jungle to a natural-medicine compound where she was staying in Jutiapa when the accident occurred. The singer, who would have turned 31 next month, was killed as she was driving on a Honduran road, said her publicist, Jay Marose.Įight other people, including a sister of Lopes, were in the Mitsubishi Montero sports utility vehicle when the crash occurred Thursday night near Jutiapa, about 10 miles west of La Ceiba, on Honduras' northern Atlantic coast. LA CEIBA, Honduras - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, of the Grammy-winning trio TLC, had spent the past month in Honduras working on a multitude of projects - a clothing line, a new solo project and a book about her colorful, sometimes troubled life.īut she died before she was able to write the final chapter.
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