Girl Groups

The ‘90s were filled with some of the most iconic and beloved girl groups of all-time, something that hasn’t been duplicated in the years since. One of the more popular R&B girl groups of the decade was Atlanta’s own Xscape, which was the first R&B act on Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def record label. Well […]

G.R.L. is a vocally-gifted, sassy group of young women that experienced an unimaginable personal and professional tragedy last September when their bandmate Simone Battle took her own life…

  LaTavia Roberson was one of the quartet along with Kelly Rowland, LeToya Luckett and Beyonce Knowles, who formed Destiny’s Child until the group blew up…

During the 90’s the New York based trio SWV was known as much for their hit songs “Weak” “Right Here (Human Nature)” “Use Your Heart”…

Kandi Burress says her former group, Xscape, had the same “sucky” record deal as TLC. According to Kandi, that’s just the way things were in the recording industry at the time. “To me, everybody got a bad deal in the beginning. Even now, people don’t get that great of a deal unless you build your own movement before […]

For IPAD/IPOD users: The 90’s group TLC weathered its fair share of drama – everything from Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes torching her NFL boyfriend’s mansion to the group’s bankruptcy and subsequent fallout with manager Pebbles even while selling millions of records. And then, of course, Lopes’ untimely death in 2002 at the age of 30 […]

Actress Keke Palmer was just being born when TLC, the musical trio of Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Rozonda “Chili” Thomas and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins first…

Former Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams hasn’t been sitting around since the group’s been on hiatus. She’s starred in “Fela!” “Aida,” and “Chicago” on Broadway, has…

It’s Black Music Month. Black music has a long history, but just how much do you know about the girl groups that have topped the charts over the last decades? From Diana Ross and the Supremes to Destiny’s Child – see if you can answer the tough questions that only a Black music expert would […]