What Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes Taught Me About Finding Your Space

Hello and welcome to hotels with me, Lex on the debt. This is the show where we explore the mechanic to the music industry through intimate conversations on creativity and exploring. The lies of iconic artists growing up. The best time I had Lisa Left Eye Lopes was when she stepped onto the top of the pole stage alongside Sporty Spice. The Forum single never be the same. Again, I put melon seeds album off the back of that. Another child found that song. So cool, I came to know. He'll be ready, ready? I should quite how successful and dominant TLC was a group in the 90s.

While this episode will Centre around that died. I was he talked about the group Journey because that was so much because her Jenny is episode of you then. And I was thinking, when I said, I started watching, any said in interviews that something about her, just something in the way she took you later, things reminded you that both myself and then dies, will he be described as a true Gemini and I thought that's what is crazy, but more than crazy. She was a brilliant, brilliant and say, so smooth. Despite having her life cut short, just that day. He delivered so much any time that she was around. So this is a lesson in finding of space By Lisa Lopes.

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Like the past two icons. I've looked at Eve and Nina Simone Lisa, Lopes was also born and raised in Philadelphia West Philadelphia. Yeah. She was born on the 27th of May 1971. Her mom was a seamstress and her dad was an Army Sergeant. He was also really accomplished as a musician. She said that her dad brought his sergeant and the house often felt like a boot camp for was not needed. This event. Doesn't seem to have been something she wildly rebelled against or at least not when it came to progressing invite for it.

We have the ambition to improve my life continuously and began writing and playing music from the age of five by 1990. When she was 19. She been performing alongside her siblings at Church events for a while. And was very much interested in pursuing music as a profession.

She had about an audition which is going to take place in Atlanta for the formation of a new group and safely down step on it. That group became TLC with the left of each member of the group and that success was insanely rapid in 1992. The first album was released less than 2 years off of meeting each other. I don't see the album credits on the album, LA Reid and Russell Simmons with bass involved in the writing and production. So it was big guns behind the scenes cold on the TLC tip, the record label TLC was signed to was the face who always say what's that? Stink out cost and Usher to. Again, it was a stall making label that they were on.

List of the empty straight out on the group's energy combined with hip, hop reference style. Was so fun is no surprise. They perform. So, well, immediately left, I got her nickname from having a slightly slanted left eye. Twitching exaggerated by wearing a condom I've had Laughlin. I mean, sure it was the nineties, almost immediately into a success TLC became a wet as a group that while they landed in a situation which case and great exposure and looks good from the outside they had its challenges on the inside it was a dream I know all three of us but it has a lot to do with politics money. This person that person who's bigger, if it's not, everything is going to pieces and cream. A lot of hard work through the success. Lisa Lopes was introduced to Falcons player. Andre Rison the two fell in love but

Not dangerous, Young Love way, haven't been struggling past me since 15, Lisa also had issues with her use of alcohol and a combination of that kind of crazy. Young Love. And her flight alcohol abuse led to Lisa Lopes accidentally set his house on fire in 1994,

I say that like, it's a thing. She was arrested for this and pleaded guilty to arson charges. If she did Starfire intentionally, she just didn't quite intent on bedding, so much of the house.

This meant, she had to step back from hueco TLC to spend time in a halfway house that she was less involved in the band. Second album CrazySexyCool been in the Fest

The album CrazySexyCool was shoes for sale. Say it was the album which for waterfalls probably that most enduring record and her production credits from Jermaine. Dupri did a Dallas Austin and sail the album is awarded to Grammy's, once the best R&B album and one for the single creep,

I think it's. Of time that a few impacts on Lisa. First day. It was the start of a growing up. For her as the next five or so. Yeah, if you see a slow change as she began to mature and address to Demons, in terms of a relationship with the group, The Three band mates did a really good job of maintaining their bones despite the turbulence and Kayo sustained. However I think being slightly apart from the Grateful Dead album Melissa stop the feeling that site just hatched from the output of the group and looking for other spaces, takes boy, creativity.

PPL rates in interviews that have wraps and bus as well as prominent and fbmc. She always paid his life except for both creatively.

But then there was other issue which impacted the whole group anymore. We've been quiet long enough. Can I get a amen?

Well, I'll put it to you this way.

We are the biggest selling female group ever.

10 million albums worldwide. We have worked very hard, we have been in this business for five years and we are as broken be and we're not like trying to be as a story that was the case. I would have been on everybody's talk show talking about how broke we are. We haven't done that. I know it's hard to believe because we saw so many albums, but it is possible. That's the deal here. So, and we're not happy at all. But for real tonight, this is all we wanted. We wanted to win a Grammy at least one, and we want to and that proves that we are the jam.

Chelsea performed at the Grammys and won two Grammys. And this with the speech they gave off to its

This is a 1996, very brave, and very interesting for them, speak out there. I think falling that the group file for bankruptcy with Lisa's boyfriend, stepping out to support with legal fees. They lay Siege eggs. They were so broke. They couldn't even afford to file for bankruptcy,

I may be wondering how it possible that people with so much success could.

Be safe without money and I think that's why so important to have your eye on the business side, when you're in music.

Because as they said they were surrounded by greedy people. They didn't have the right contract. They once that's how success financially, even if there was a setup for success in terms of creatively,

Lisa started drinks and feet to walk this to connect me with other successful. Female MCS feature on one chat with salt and pepper, Queen Latifah and MC Lyte and another woodlow can Missy Elliott, Angie Martinez and brass and take notes at those things happened in that period of time where you would have five and see if it will female all-in-one track.

Intel say she was being given eight balls to like drop in and go to the rot rather than it being a completely integrated. Pause the song, she did stay with the group hi-five Express that while she was looking at Sinai projects, that didn't mean the group were breaking up. Lisa also did a cheeky TV stand because I didn't episode law series on Anastasia and I found out what is researching this. The TV series with no one stand. A stage of career was hosted by Lisa Left Eye Lopes, which I loved

In 1999, DLC release that third album FanMail.

This album is the culmination of everything they've worked for and I'm so glad that it came off. They filed for bankruptcy and secured that box. The album included. Nice crops and Unpretty. Without exhausting being the monster might send pachisi that would so be credit from him.

It went to number one in the US and was nominated for album of the year at the Grammys.

The year of the release of Fame now that Lisa Lopes featured on never be the same again with Mel c a k, a Sporty Spice. A smart Fusion of two office space with huge success in a group and both looking for new ways to break and put in the Thailand as individuals.

Lisa was also on the what's a, what's a, what another hit and it seems she has a tower, the old gray and fees have, but I can take a good song and make it great. Anytime she jumps out and was impressed by the features, and I think it's a shame, we didn't see much more of this, in the moment. Popular R&B songs with speech of us is from women who rap.

Yes, I did. She did it really well as well as music. Lisa starts ragging in other areas, she managed all tests including black witch. If people remember the movie, honey devisri that go buy one of the three at the end with the song, I'm good and I check out black b l a q u e.

When it came to start of albums, you can either of us had a clear ambition and vision for what she wanted the album to achieve. So when I was recording this album, you know, it's very important to me that I reach as many people as I can through my music in from Love and through healing. You know, if I want that same energy that I have in the same love that I couldn't see my record to bleed from the CD and out of your speakers and into your system, you know, someone I recorded every song on the album, you know, no matter what. I was talking about whether it be a party track or relationship track or, or just questioning our existence, I try to do things from a very positive point of view, because there's always more than one way to look at the stuff.

She's been through a process of healing and try to put on music which was comforting or healing to other people. And if you went through her life and grow as a person, she talked about the fact that while she was in the musician as someone who's been through trauma, she's become owners more interested in emotional healing and actually helping people. And she knew that music was a powerful tool in which to Tita

In 2002, a TLC, were preparing to release that for studio album. Listen to taking a much-needed break in Mexico, but she was tragically killed in a car crash. Seven other people including her brother and sister were in the vehicle when the crash happened, I read in a bituary that said unlike eliyahu it felt was just getting started late. As probably has her Grace's work. Or do you know how I didn't know if that's necessarily true because while have fussed at a project Supernova didn't really lie and she just signed a soda deal with Death Row Records which was very much to write play for.

I think her death was one of the huge moments of lost women in rap because she had the slickness across out here in different spaces to dominate in the pork chop and rap world. And it's all just like that who can become a date, waves change the sum up, as well as money, you how amazingly, talented and Brilliant. She is, I wanted to share some lessons from him.

Fast Express Yourself, find different Avenues, to explore your creativity, and own your personal expression that can be pushed yourself. It's connected, but Lisa was Brave. She always went off to different things in different spaces. She didn't just stay in the safety of the group.

And finally be open to it all day as a human, as well as an artist.

Thank you, Lisa Lopes for everything you guys Weld and thank you. God for listening, have a great week and stay blessed and do believe that there is an afterlife. And I do believe that your life is defined by what you believe in and I don't know what Aaliyah's beliefs were

but,

She is.

I'm sure that there are people who are close to Aliyah, who will definitely feel her presence.

Even though she's not here in this Physical Realm, music can be very healing and I hope that when people listen to my album that it's it gives them a very good feeling, no matter what kind of situation they may be in, even if it is.

And pool party and everyone just wants to have a great time and I hope that you can come put my arm in and just listen to it from top to bottom and then filled it. Take us to drive to dinner with God.