Tough Facts About Lisa Left Eye Lopes, The Fiery MC
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was the ill-fated member of TLC whose heartbreaking life came to a calamitous end. The scariest part? She saw it coming.
1. Her Story Was A Tragedy
Music fans remember Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes as the ill-fated member of TLC—even if she did try to break up the band. Long before the accident that claimed her life, however, her story was full of heartbreak, tragedy, and fiery disasters. But the cruelest twist in her already calamitous story was that she saw the end coming.
2. She Carried Her Family’s Burdens
Lisa Nicole Lopes was born in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her humble upbringing should have prepared her for the tumultuous and chaotic life that lay ahead. Instead, it did nothing but sow the seeds for her struggles going forward. Her challenging relationships with her father and grandfather stayed with her for life.
3. She Went To “Boot Camp”
Lopes’ father, Ronald Lopes Sr, was a US Army staff sergeant. According to Lopes, he drilled her just as hard as he drilled new recruits. She said that he was “very strict, very domineering” and ran their household like it was “boot camp”. Sadly, her father would not be the last—or even the worst—domineering man in her life.
4. She Took After Her Father
With a father as strict as hers, Lopes learned a lot about discipline and hard work. But that wasn’t all she learned from her father. According to Lopes, her father had a profound musical talent of his own that clearly rubbed off on her.
By the age of five, she was playing and composing songs on her toy piano. She just needed a little more “TLC”.
