She was in the habit of replacing one lens of her glasses with a condom during performances.
Fact
Went to healing village in Honduras to heal and meditate occasionally.
Lisa Lopes was born on May 27, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Wanda and Ronald Lopes, and she had two sisters, Ronnie and Leslie. Lisa’s early education took place in Philadelphia, and she later attended the University of Maryland, where she studied communications.
Lisa’s career began as a rapper and dancer with the all-female hip-hop group TLC. The group became one of the most successful recording acts of the 1990s, selling over 65 million records worldwide. As a solo artist, Lisa released one album, Supernova, in 2001.
Lisa’s net worth was estimated at $5 million at the time of her death. She had earned significant income from her music career, as well as from endorsement deals and other business ventures.
In her personal life, Lisa was briefly married to football player Andre Rison from 1994 to 1996. The couple had one child together, a son named Lil’ Zane. Lisa also had a daughter, Snow, from a previous relationship.
Lisa Lopes died in a car accident in La Ceiba, Honduras on April 25, 2002. She was 30 years old.
General Info
Full Name
Lisa Lopes
Net Worth
$5 million dollars
Died
April 25, 2002, La Ceiba, Honduras
Height
1.54 m
Profession
Actor, Model, Rapper, Songwriter, Singer-songwriter, Dancer, No Scrubs, Waterfalls, Creep
Nationality
American
Family
Children
Jamal Lopes, Snow Lopes, No Scrubs, Waterfalls, Creep
Parents
Wanda Lopes Colemon, Ronald Lopes, No Scrubs, Waterfalls, Creep
Siblings
Reigndrop Lopes, Ronald Lopes, No Scrubs, Waterfalls, Creep
Accomplishments
Music Groups
TLC
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song, No Scrubs, Waterfalls, Creep
She was in the habit of replacing one lens of her glasses with a condom during performances.
Quotes
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Quote
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The only thing I've ever wanted to do was to help people, because there are a lot of sick people in the world, a lot of people who are struggling and suffering and they're just not happy. And I used to be one of those people, and I used to wish that my life would end, you know. If I was 20 I'd say 'Oh I can't stand to...I don't know if I'm going to live to be another 20 years, I can't take another 20 years of what I've been through'. And my mom would look at me and say 'Oh I'm so sad to hear you say that, and if you don't know what it feels like to be happy, you don't know what you don't know'. It's like there's no hope. But it doesn't really have to be that way. I just want to make music and I want to do a lot of things that are really going to inspire people, and improve the quality of their lives.
2
[on Tupac Shakur]: I got a chance to go to his house a few months before he passed on and um, it was weird, it was a very weird experience because everything that was in my cabinets was in his cabinets. Down to the seasonings in the kitchen, the types of food that we ate, the pot set, the chairs that we sat in. I look at the way that his life was and I don't know, I see a lot of that in me.
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It was a little weird being in the presence of Tupac, and we're very similar. Similar to the point where we almost clashed, we're both Geminis and it was almost like four people being in the room.
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[on her short-lived experience in jail while awaiting relocation to detox] I just felt uncomfortable. I wasn't really scared until I started walking down the hall. I started to think, "What if a girl tries to rape me, or what if someone tries to bully me because I'm Left Eye." That kind of stuff was running through my head. But as soon as I turned the corner and all the girls saw me, they started cheering. They were like, "Whoooo! Left Eye! Left Eye!" So I started pimping, like, "Yeah! What's up?" First I was walking like I was scared, but when they started yelling and screaming my name, I stood upright and I felt confident. Like okay, I'm not gone have to worry about that stuff I was just thinking about. I was like, "All right!" The whole time I was there I was just cool. I didn't have a problem with nobody and nobody had a problem with me. I wasn't like stuck in a corner crying like, "What am I going to do?" As soon as I got there, I joined in the card game. There were people who were excited. They were calling their family. They were like, "Left Eye, can you say hi to my little nephew?" I was like, "Sure, whatever, no problem."
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[about Tupac Shakur] No, we never slept together. That was one of the first things he told me. He said, "Don't ever let me sleep with you. I don't care what I say, I don't care how. I don't care what I do, just don't let it happen". So I stuck by that because I didn't want to mess anything up.
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I have always been a very spiritual woman, I think we all have different heavens. Mine will probably be me re-living my life over -Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes on death.
7
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one
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"I felt like an outcast. It used to be the three of us being very silly, and then it was just the two of them being silly. I didn't feel silly anymore." (on her falling-out with her TLC bandmates)
Facts
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Fact
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Died near the Honduran town of Roma, which is the Spanish word for Rome. The popular saying is that "all roads lead to Rome," which in Left Eye's case was eerily correct as she was driving to towards this town at the time of the accident that claimed her life.
At the age of four, she could play the piano by ear.
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On how she got her nickname "Left Eye": "A guy gave me a pick up line and said he was attracted to my left eye". The "guy" is reported to be Michael Lamont Bivins of "New Edition" and "Bell Biv DeVoe" fame.
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Of Cape Verdean (Portuguese & African) descent.
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Her last name, Lopes, is Portuguese.
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Dropped out of high school. Her mother, Wanda Lopes, forced her to go back and she got a GED.
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Became the legal guardian of her younger brother, Ronald Lopes, and sister Raina, when she was 21 years old.
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At the advice of Dr. Sebi, an herbal guru in Honduras who cures AIDS, diabetes, sickle cell, (and just about everything else), she sought to find peace and to stop poisoning her body with alcohol and cigarettes, by fasting for 40 days.
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Her rap verse from the hit song "Waterfalls" is carved on her tombstone.
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Ranked #80 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World". [2002]
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Died in car crash in Honduras April 25, 2002. She was the only fatality in a vehicle that had seven passengers.
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Lopes' white casket was engraved with a rap she recited on TLC's No. 1 song "Waterfalls". It reads, "Dreams are hopeless aspirations, in hopes of coming true, believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you."
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Her pseudonym, "N.I.N.A." stood for "New Identity Not Applicable"
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Album producer of singing-group Blaque.
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Went to healing village in Honduras to heal and meditate occasionally.
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Lived primarily in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Father was in the Army. Grew up in Kansas, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Panama.
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Appeared on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Top of the Charts' edition. [July 2001]
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Adopted a little girl and named her Snow [2001]
21
Lopes doesn't show up for a press conference. She was then considered missing and the word goes out to the local radio stations and TV stations. No contact with other TLC members or manager. Not many were surprised due to her spontaneous behavior, but they were very worried. It's later announced she has contacted someone and said she will make an appearance in October at an award show. [September 2000]