Female R&B group TLC will perform for the first time in 10 years on North American soil this summer during the second annual Mixtape Festival in Pennsylvania. TLC's performance is being dubbed a reunion, but the question on many people's minds is how the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes will be incorporated in the performance.

Left Eye died in a car accident 2002. Details of the reunion are sparse, so whether Left Eye appears onstage via clips on big screens or as a hologram — like deceased rapper Tupac Shakur did at Coachella in 2012 — remains unknown.

Fellow member Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins addressed the hologram rumors in a recent HuffPost Live interview, discussing the emotional toll of seeing her in digital form:

"We talked about a hologram way before Coachella happened with Tupac, but you know emotionally I don't think we were ready and then it cost too much at the time. ... We're trying to work that out to see if we can really deal with that because you have to stand next to that person and you know she's not here and that's really emotional. It's easier for people on the outside to go, 'That would be dope,' yeah you know, with the electronics and all the technology, yeah it is, but emotionally I don't know."

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TLC will perform at the Mixtape Festival on July 27, organizers announced over the weekend. The festival begins July 26 and includes performances from Train, The Script, OneRepublic, Hanson, New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Jonas Brothers and more.

T-Boz, Left Eye and Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas became popular in the 1990s for such songs as "Creep," "No Scrubs," "Waterfalls" and "Unpretty."

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