Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.

Lisa Nicole Lopes ( May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002 ), better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, dancer, and singer-songwriter.

Lopes won four Grammy Awards for her work with TLC.

Lopes celebrated her nickname by wearing a black mark ; often a wrapped condom, in keeping with the group's promotion of safe sex – later evolving to a black stripe under the eye, and then an eyebrow ring in her left eyebrow.

Things were heated between the ladies for some time, with Thomas speaking out against Lopes, calling her antics " selfish ", " evil ", and " heartless.

After Fanmail, Lopes began to expand her solo career.

Lopes also collaborated on " Gimme Some " by Toni Braxton from her 2000 release The Heat.

About nine months before her death, Lopes appeared on the singers ' edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire along with Joey McIntyre, Tyrese, Nick Lachey, and Lee Ann Womack.

Lopes spent much of her free time after the conclusion of TLC's first headlining tour supporting Fanmail recording her debut solo album, " Supernova ".

After numerous talks with Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Lopes severed her solo deal with Arista ( despite remaining signed to the label as a member of TLC ) and signed with Knight's Tha Row Records, intending to record a second solo album under the pseudonym " N. I. N. A.

In 2008, Lopes ' family decided to work with producers at Surefire Music Group to create a posthumous album in her honor, " Eye Legacy ".

An unreleased track featuring Lopes was released on the Internet, on the eve of the 10-year anniversary of her death by Block Starz Music.

Lopes was often vocal about her personal life and difficult past.

Lopes claimed that Rison had beaten her after a night out, and she set fire to his shoes to get back at him.

Lopes later revealed that she did not have a lot of freedom within the relationship and was abused mentally and physically, having released all her frustrations on the night of the fire.

Lopes, who was sentenced to five years probation and therapy at a halfway house, was never able to shake the incident from her reputation.

Lopes revealed on The Last Days of Left Eye documentary that her meeting with a struggling mother in rehab left a big impression on her.

The film also captured a car accident in which Lopes was a passenger and her assistant was the driver: " It was dark when the car driven by Lopes's assistant left the village.

Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a " spirit " following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared her last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.

" While her assistant was never charged with any wrongdoing, Lopes later compensated the family for their loss.

TLC's lyrics, chiefly written by Lopes and Dallas Austin, were playful, female-empowering anthems characterized by Lopes's quirky, nasal-toned raps, Watkins's low-voiced lead vocals, and Thomas's powerful vocals and harmonization.

Lopes was released from rehab to attend the recording sessions, but the finished album featured significantly less of her raps and vocals.

It is also home to New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch which is known for many high-profile funerals, including those of Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and of singer Lisa Lopes ( also known as " Lefteye "), member of the R & B group TLC.

Rostropovich either commissioned or was the recipient of compositions by many composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutosławski, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Schnittke, Aram Khachaturian, Ástor Piazzolla, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arthur Bliss and Lopes Graça.

" Waterfalls ", an Organized Noise-produced song that featured an old-school soul-based musical arrangement, socially conscious lyrics criticizing drug dealing and unsafe sex, and an introspective rap from Lopes, became TLC's biggest hit, and its million-dollar music video was an MTV staple for many months.

In 2000, Spice Girl Melanie C released a single co-written with Lopes in the UK and Europe, called " Never Be the Same Again "; it became a hit reaching # 1 in many countries.

The travelers who stopped at the island gave Lopes many things, including livestock and seeds.

Eventually, Lopes became a gardener and a keeper of livestock, working the soil, planting fruit trees, grasses and many other forms of vegetation.

It is known to have signed many popular West Coast hip hop artists such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, MC Hammer, Nate Dogg and the rap group Tha Dogg Pound consisting of rappers Kurupt and Daz Dillinger also Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes of TLC although most if not all departed from the label after its demise following the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996.

Msgr da Costa Lopes, who was a Timorese priest of many years experience, was also a member of the National Assembly in Lisbon.

Pelotas is the birthplace and home of many nationally famous people, like the regional writer João Simões Lopes Neto ( 1865 – 1916 ), author of Cancioneiro Guasca ( 1910 ), Contos Gauchescos ( 1912 ) and Lendas do Sul ( 1913 ); Hipólito José da Costa, the founder of the printing press in Brazil ; the painter Leopoldo Gotuzzo, whose works have surpassed the borders of Pelotas, winning awards and expositions even in Europe ; and Antônio Caringi ( 1905 – 1981 ), an internationally-recognized sculptor.

Santana Lopes had become Prime-Minister after José Manuel Durão Barroso left the country in order to become President of the European Commission in a decision that divided the country, because many Portuguese were expecting that the Socialist President Jorge Sampaio would dissolve parliament and call a legislative election.

A rare blend of speed and power, Lopes hit a career-high 28 home runs in 1979, becoming one of only seven second basemen in NL history to have hit that many home runs in a season ( Rogers Hornsby, Davey Johnson, Jeff Kent, Ryne Sandberg, Juan Samuel and Chase Utley are the others ).

Particularly, many BMX racers made the crossover, including champions such as John Tomac ( Team Tomac Bikes ), and Brian Lopes.

The songs on the album are a blend of funk ( Watkins ), hip-hop ( Lopes ), and R & B ( Thomas ), similar to the " new jack swing " sound popularized by producer Teddy Riley in the late 1980s ( and TLC's sound was sometimes cited as an example of the " new jill swing " genre ).

During TLC's first national tour, as MC Hammer's opening act, Lopes and Thomas discovered that Watkins had sickle-cell disease, an ailment which she kept a closely guarded secret until she became ill while TLC was touring the Southwest US.

TLC's contract was renegotiated, their production deal with Pebbitone and Perri Reid ( who had separated from her husband by this time ) was rescinded, and the group appeared on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack with " This Is How It Works " ( a song written by Babyface and Lopes ) and was set to re-enter the recording studio in 1997 after signing a new contract with LaFace / Arista.

" Norris echoed the sentiments of TLC's Lisa Lopes, who told MTV that it's because of Mariah that we have " Hip-Pop.

Singles " Goin ' Down " and " Northern Star " were met with promising success, but the third single " Never Be the Same Again ", featuring TLC member Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes, became her first UK number-one single as a solo artist and a number-one single in the Netherlands, a Top Five hit in Germany and No. 2 in Australia.

The Dodgers loaded the bases again with two outs in the sixth, but Nettles made a great stop on a ball hit by Davey Lopes to again complete a force play.

Rhoden, a good hitting pitcher, hit a ground-rule double to left and Davey Lopes followed with a two-run homer off Yankee starter Ron Guidry.

Steve Garvey hit. 312, Jimmy Wynn knocked in 108 runs, Bill Buckner hit. 314 in one of the best years of his career, Davey Lopes stole 59 bases, Andy Messersmith won 20 games, and Don Sutton won 19.

Hatcher then singled in Lopes to make it 7 – 5, after which Denny Walling hit into a fielder's choice for the second out.

Arguably Lopes ' best World Series was against the Yankees in 1978, when he hit three home runs and seven RBIs.

The Philadelphia Phillies won the Series in 5 games, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays without needing a walk-off hit, and with four ex-Cubs on their roster: Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Scott Eyre, and Jamie Moyer ; along with coach Davey Lopes, who had played for the Cubs late in his career.

He produced and co-wrote the # 1 UK hit single " Never Be The Same Again " with Melanie C. and Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes of TLC, which was # 1 in 35 countries.