Pebbles
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
Pebbles follow-up recording, 1990s Always, fared nearly as well, going gold and spawning another Top Five hit with Giving You the Benefit, while both Salt-N-Pepa and Cherelle made guest appearances on the record. Instead of pursuing her solo career, Pebbles then founded her own record label, Savvy Records, and created the Atlanta, GA-based hip-hop/dance trio TLC (comprised of members Tionne T-Boz Watkins, Rozonda Chilli Thomas, and Lisa Left Eye Lopes). Guiding TLCs career and serving as their manager, the trio became one of pops biggest hit-making groups by 1994, thanks to their 11 times platinum smash Crazysexycool. Pebbles returned back to her solo career in 1995 with her third release overall, Straight From the Heart. Although it was a much more mature work (and featured contributions from such producers/songwriters as Sean Puffy Combs, Kyle West, and Organized Noize), it failed to match the commercial success of its predecessors. 2000 saw the release of a 14-track career overview on the Hip-O label with Greatest Hits.
