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Report: TLC Plan Reunion Tour With Projection of 'Left Eye'

Five cities already said to be booked for North American jaunt

April 26, 2012 8:40 AM ET
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Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins and Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas at the 2008 BET Awards in Los Angeles.
Arnold Turner/Getty Images for BET

TLC are planning a reunion tour that will integrate video projections of late band member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, reports TMZ. According to a representative for the R&B group, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas are in the planning stages of a full-scale North American tour that will launch later this year. Five major cities have already been booked.

At this point in the planning stages, it is unlikely that the group will bring Lopes back as a "hologram," like the digital simulation of Tupac Shakur that was recently used at Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's headlining performances at the Coachella festival. The surviving members of TLC will simply project footage of Lopez on a screen and use her vocals in the show.

Lopez died a decade ago yesterday in a car crash in Honduras.

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