Tionne Watkins of TLC Says She Is Doing One Last Major Tour Next Year and RETIRING

She said she will continue to do spot dates and private gigs but she is hanging up the world tours. I am so glad she has got in a place financially where she can retire. Touring has been very hard on her physically and she had to tour right after having brain surgery because financially she was in trouble. I remember she took a part time gig on a soap opera to keep the checks coming in at one time. Who remembers her character? I watched just for her!

I think Rozonda (Chilli) has always toured simply because she loves it. Dallas Austin being her baby daddy kept her with a healthy income for many years when TLC was dormant and not working very much. Tionne on the other hand had medical bills a really bad divorce and bankruptcy and major health problems. I am so glad she is getting to a place where she wants to slow down. I can only imagine it is getting harder and harder on her physically with her Sickle Cell.

Tionne says touring takes up all of her time and she has other things she wants to do like write scripts and be creative in other areas of media. I wonder how Rozonda will handle the retirement because she seems to have always been the biggest cheerleader when it comes to TLC even when Lisa was alive it was always Chilli that held the group together in my opinion and wanted them to continue as a group. Tionne and Lisa had other opportunities outside of TLC but it seems Rozonda never really wanted to do anything but be in TLC. She could have done a lot more she did a small amount of acting but even she says TLC4Ever still to this day.

I know a lot of people don't have a high opinion of TLC many feel they are a manufactured group (they were) but they were a huge part of the culture when I was coming of age. A lot of people think they are overrated and in some ways they are but they had good music and their aesthetic and chemistry and image was so huge it made you forget that musically they weren't good singers at all.