High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rozonda Ocelean Thomas (born February 27, 1971), best known by her stage name Chilli, is an American R&B singer and actress who rose to fame as one third of the successful R&B/Hip-Hop/Pop girl group TLC.Rozonda Ocelean Thomas was born in Atlanta, Georgia[1] and graduated from B.E. Mays High School. Her father, Abdul Ali, was of East Indian descent and her mother, Ava Thomas, is of African American and Native American descent. Thomas, who had been raised by her mother, later allowed the Sally Jessy Raphael television talk show to air footage of her meeting her father for the first time in 1996.