Undeniable Top 10 Best Black Female Groups of All Time

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TLC

If you ask what is TLC, most people would say Tender Loving Care but in this case it stands for a major group in the history of music, T-Boz, Chilli and Lisa Lopes.

TLC were hugely successful black female singers whose repertoire spanned R&B and hip hop music. Originally composed of singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, rapper Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and singer Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas the group found unprecedented success in the 1990s while also enduring a series of spats with the law, each other, and the group’s record label.

Initially, tlc achieved commercial success following the release of their debut album Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tip, which sold 6 million copies worldwide. However, it was their second album, CrazySexyCool, that catapulted the group to superstar status. CrazySexyCool went on to be certified diamond by the RIAA— a first for a female group, and eventually sold 23 million copies worldwide.

Five years later, the group released their third album FanMail, which became the group’s first album to debut at number one and sold more than 11 million copies worldwide. The subsequent tour following FanMail’s release became the highest grossing tour of all time by a female band. In 2002, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes died in a car accident in Honduras. Seven months later, T-Boz and Chilli released the group’s fourth album 3D, which sold 2 million copies worldwide, scored the Top 40 hit Girl Talk and earned two Grammy Awards nominations, it featured unreleased vocals from Left Eye.


6 COMMENTS

  1. What happened to the pointer sisters Martha and vandellas the shirelles the marvellettes the chantels

  2. SWV, TLC? Are you serious? I know chic’s on the block who will sing circles around them. Destiny’s Child? Same thing. En Vogue is barely making it. Salt n Pepa is a completely different genre.

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