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Body Singer Lisa Left-Eye Lopes Expected to Arrive in U.S. Tomorrow.

Aired April 27, 2002 - 22:28   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: The body of singer Lisa Left-Eye Lopes is expected to arrive back in the U.S. tomorrow. The member of the Grammy winning trio, TLC, was killed in a car crash in Honduras Thursday. Authorities there say that Lopes was behind the wheel and may have been driving too fast when she tried to pass another vehicle.

And just a few weeks ago, CNN's Kathy Nellis interviewed Lopes about an upcoming project. In one of her last interviews before her death, she talked about her music and about the young people that she was mentoring.

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KATHY NELLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What would a Grammy-winning R&B singer and war ravaged refugees from Sudan have in common? Talent and a love of music. The singer, Lisa Left-Eye Lopes, the refugees, young men who were once known as the Lost Boys. Thousands of young men, who were driven from their villages and separated from their families during Sudan's long and bloody civil war.

LISA LEFT EYE LOPES: So I met the Lost Boys. And I was interested to know if any of them were musicians, musically inclined, played, sang, chanted, any of the above. And one reason is that I wanted to incorporate what they do into what I do.

NELLIS: The Lost Boys singing in Dinka (ph), a language of the cattle herding people in Central Africa. And although Lopes couldn't understood the words, the message came through.

LOPES: I could still feel what they were saying. You know, I couldn't understand the words, but I could definitely feel them.

NELLIS (on camera): Though they are thousands of miles from their homeland, and years removed from their dangerous journey, these young people are still connected to their culture. Their roots alive and flourishing in their music.

(voice-over): Lopes leaves a legacy of music herself. TLC became the most popular female group in the U.S., with over 20 million albums sold in this country alone. She had a number of projects underway: a new album, a protege group of young singers called Egypt, a book, TV shows in the works, and a clothing line coming out, and her recording session with the Lost Boys.

LOPES: Hey, you know, they just -- you know, sung from their hearts. And they looked like they had a lot of fun doing it.

NELLIS: The same could be said of Lisa Lopes.

Kathy Nellis, CNN, Atlanta.

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