Lisa Nicole Lopes was born on May 27, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the first born to Ronald Lopes Sr. and Wanda Lopes-Coleman. Lisa was highly thought of as a creative individual since she was 5 years old, exposed to Fashion on his Mother side & designing, and Music on her Dad's side. She started with the name Lisa Love. Later sought as a spiritual rapper, singer, songwriter, friend, daughter, and sister who modeled, assist with making clothes. She was in a girl group called Super Freak MCs with 3 other girls, performed at talent shows, or worked behind the scenes at talent shows before she left her hometown in 1990 at 19 years old to go to Atlanta now as the artist named QT. She joined a girl group named Second Nature, who later became TLC.

                                                  After being signed under Arista Record's branch label, LaFace Records, TLC released 4 albums, 'Ooooooohhh... on the TLC Tip', 'CrazySexyCool', 'FanMail', and '3D'. Lisa came up with the titles for each album. Together, before '3D', TLC sold +30 million records world wide, spurring hits such as "Waterfalls", "Creep", "No Scrubs", "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "What About Your Friends", and many other popular records! They've been deemed one of the Greatest Girl Groups of all time world wide, best selling African American girl group, the best selling R&B girl group, and the best selling girl group in America. 'FanMail' gave TLC their first #1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Charts. 'CrazySexyCool' gave TLC their first diamond certified record, making them the first girl group to get a diamond certification (and by default, Left Eye the first female rapper to receive a diamond certification in or outside a group), and landed as one of the greatest albums of the 20th century.

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Lisa released a solo album in 2001, entitled 'Supernova', that was released overseas, and streamed online. She released only one single, "The Block Party", that reached #4 on the UK R&B Singles chart. 'Supernova' peaked at #27 on the UK Hip-Hop/R&B Album Chart. Lisa then started working with Tha Row Records  on a sophomore album, and a remix album to 'Supernova'. She was recording '3D' with TLC up on other things until her untimely death on April 25th, 2002. She was in a car accident with 9 other people in her brand new truck on their way to Sambo Creek. Lisa was announced dead after she arrived in the hospital.  She was only 30 years old.  Because of her death, she became one of a number of tragic young deaths in the entertainment industry who lives have been taken away from the world. Her funeral was held at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia on May 2nd, 2002, where over 30,000 people came from around the world to say goodbye to the Hip-Hop Legend. Engraved upon her previous and new headstones is a verse she written from TLC's greatest hit “Waterfalls” including the lines:

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“Dreams are hopeless aspirations, in hopes of coming true, believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you."