Chilli tlc net worth
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TLC (group)
American girl group
TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta. The group's best-known line-up was composed of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. The group enjoyed success during the 1990s,[1] with nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles: "Creep", "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs", and "Unpretty".[2] TLC also recorded four multi-platinum albums, including CrazySexyCool (1994), which received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[3] They became the first R&B group in history to receive the million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for FanMail (1999).[4]
Having sold over 65 million records worldwide, TLC is one of the five best-selling American girl groups of all time.[5][6]VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music.[7]Billboard magazine ranked TLC as
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Rozonda Thomas
American singer, dancer and actress (born 1971)
Musical artist
Rozonda Ocielian Thomas (born February 27, 1971), also known by her stage name Chilli, is an American singer, dancer and actress who is a member of the group TLC, one of the best-selling girl groups of the late 1990s.
Early life
Thomas was born in Columbus, Georgia and graduated from Benjamin Elijah Mays High School in 1989.[2] Her father, Abdul Ali, is of Bangladeshi and Arab descent, while her mother, Ava Thomas, is African American and Native American.[3][4][5]
Thomas, who had been raised by her mother, later allowed the Sally Jessy Raphael television talk show to air footage of her meeting her father for the first time in 1996, when she was 25.[3][6] When she was a child, her great-grandmother, whom she called Big Mama, took her to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.[7]
Music career
1991–present: TLC
Main article: TLC (group)
Thomas was first a dancer for Damian Dame. In 1991, she join
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TLC's Chilli Reveals She Was Once Almost Kicked Out the Group: 'They Were Auditioning People' (Exclusive)
For true music fans, there’s no TLC without Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. But according to the star, there was a time when that was almost the case.
"I'm the momma of the group," Chilli, 52, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, opening up ahead of Lifetime's new documentary TLC Forever, which delves into the iconic girl group's meteoric rise and complicated history.
It's the role Chilli came to play alongside bandmates Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, but Chilli wasn't always the mom. In fact, she wasn't always there. Back in the early ’90s, "I was dancing with LaFace Records' very first group, Damian Dame," recalls the star.
TLC — a name formed from the initials of original members Tionne, Lisa and Crystal Jones — were looking to replace Jones when Chilli (a nickname Lopes gave her to salvage their moniker) walked in. "Oh, she's pretty," Chilli recalls Watkins noting dryly after she a
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