MUMBAI: Popular 90’s R&B group, TLC, is looking to Kickstarter to fund its fifth and final studio album. The Grammy winning girl group, which currently includes two of its former members, T-Boz (Tionne Watkins) and Chilli (Rozonda Thomas), launched the fund raising campaign on Monday, 19 January 2015.
This will be the group’s first album in 13 years. The last album they released was ‘3D’ in 2002, which came seven months after Left-Eye (Lisa Lopes), the band’s third member, died in a car crash. On the Kickstarter page, T-Boz and Chilli stated, “This final album will be the first studio album by the two of us. Of course, Lisa’s spirit will always be present in our music. That will never change.”
The duo hopes to raise $150,000 over the next 30 days, which will go towards studio sessions, production, album promotion and compensating musicians. T-Boz and Chilli have already started writing and producing the album, and are hopeful of releasing it later this year, when they start touring.
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“While major labels offer artists multimillion dollar recording and marketing budgets, they don’t often give artists complete control of their own music. It is ESSENTIAL that we create our final album completely on our own terms, without any restrictions, with YOU,” the note on Kickstarter added.
Donations for funding the final album start at $5 and go up to $7,500 with supporters getting all kinds of things in return from free digital downloads of the album to TLC scrapbooks, autographed vinyl to autographed lyrics, VIP concert tickets and more.
TLC is one of the most successful girl groups in music, and was also ranked by Billboard as one of the greatest musical trios. During its time, the group sold over 65 million records worldwide, and won five Grammy awards. They also had four number one singles and 10 tracks in the top 10.
The ‘Scrubs’ hitmakers are not the first artist to turn to Kickstarter to support a project. Last year, musician, Neil Young, managed to raise $6.2 million for his digital music project- PonoMusic.
