DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
BBC Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox nominates Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, a hip hop artist and rapper who performed with the band TLC.
She burned her lover's house down and TLC went bankrupt. Lisa died in a car accident aged 30, during a documentary shoot.
The expert witness is music journalist Jacqueline Springer.
Presented by Matthew Parris
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.
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| 0:44.7 | A stunning yet delicate beauty, dressed in baggy clothes. She spoke frankly even explicitly |
| 0:51.2 | about female sexuality and liberation in her lyrics. |
| 0:55.0 | A commercially minded, fiercely ambitious young woman went bankrupt at the height of her |
| 1:00.4 | international pop career, then just aged 30 her short, colourful life. of her |
| 1:03.3 | short, |
| 1:04.3 | short colorful life was cut off in a car accident |
| 1:06.8 | whilst making a documentary about her own life on a retreat in Honduras |
| 1:11.2 | in Central America, best known as one-third of the band TLC |
| 1:15.8 | that had global chart success in the 90s with songs like this. |
| 1:20.0 | Don't go chased in waterfalls. |
| 1:24.0 | Please stick to the rivers and the legs that you used to. |
| 1:29.0 | I know that you're gonna have it your way on nothing at all. |
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