Famous for her work in the R&B, urban contemporary, and dance pop music genres, Perri "Pebbles" Reed is perhaps most well known as the creator and manager of the popular 1990s music group TLC. She released several solo albums, including the Platinum recording Pebbles (1987) and the Gold-designated album Always (1990). In the early 1980s, she began her career as a songwriter and backup singer for the music group Con Funk Shun.
