Lolly Pop is a persona of Brooke R. Calder, as produced by Ricardo Autobahn, Monte Moir and Doctor Fink.
Biography Raised between the United States and Zimbabwe, Africa, Calder relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to work as a dancer for Prince in 1994. Cast in the New Power Generation (NPG)'s "Get Wild" video, she was later awarded a studio apprenticeship with NPG keyboardist Morris Hayes. Upon completion, she served as a label intern with Twin/Tone Records, marketing side projects of Information Society and Semisonic.
Post Twin/Tone, Calder helmed spoken word project Burning Shakespeare and electro-kitsch trio TELEPHONE!. Circa 2004, Calder was re-positioned as a solo artist (Lolly Pop) and produced by Fink, Moir and Autobahn. In 2007, the video for "Elevator Operator" was featured on RockAmerica while the single was used in the Dash Mihok film, Loveless in Los Angeles. That same year, Pop appeared at Winter Music Conference, guested in the Paul Moering short film, Climbing Trees, and worked closely with First Avenue.
Next recruited as the female vocalist for British outfit POP INC, Calder continued to contribute vocals to and/or produce U.S. acts Afraid Of Americans (A*O*A), glean (guesting Rick McCollum of The Afghan Whigs), The Red Hour as well as the U.K.'s Cuban Boys. With The Rembrandts' Phil Solem, Calder co-wrote the theme song for the Launch TV comedy Graham Crackers.
In 2019, she appeared with Jerome Benton in the video for Jellybean Johnson's "Put Some Jelly On It". Calder next co-wrote lyrics for the Johnson-helmed Regal The Rare collaboration "Blue Goo", bookending decades of creating with members of The Minneapolis Sound.
Calder most recently collaborated with BBC award-winning director Martin Gooch on Everybody Loves Dancing, co-founded Manual Control Records and runs Calder Creative (a music consulting firm) in Philadelphia.
Charitable efforts During 2019, Calder helmed a suitcase and donations initiative for survivors of the Drake fire. Throughout 2017, A*O*A donated their sales profits to the NODAPL Legal Fund and continue to provide a $1 royalty to RAICES for each maxi-single sold. In 2004, Calder partnered with First Avenue to raise money for the Tubman Alliance, and organized a female-fronted festival dubbed Girlfest.
Discography 2000: BURNING SHAKESPEARE - No Juliet EP - Self Released Cassette 2001: THOUSAND VOID CRUSH f. BURNING SHAKESPEARE - "Radio Free" - Sursumcorda Records 2001: BROWN RAINBOW - Underground Soundtracks (Various tracks) - Self Released Cassette 2002: TELEPHONE! - Love... EP - Self Released CD 2003: TELEPHONE! - *69 EP - Self Released CD 2003: CHUCK LOVE - Continuous (Song: "Perfect") - Om Records 2004: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 1 (Song: "Life on Hold") 2004: DORY/1DJ - 8Bits (song: "Encore") - Self Released CD 2005: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 2 (Song: "Elevator Operator") 2005: SUNNY SMACK - Mezzanine Girls (Song: "Mezzanine") - Self Released CD 2006: THE CUBAN BOYS - Satellite Junkyard (Song: "Claudine Is Blue") - Banoffeesound 2006: THE CUBAN BOYS - BBC Radio [live] (Song: "Walking In The Air") - Banoffeesound 2007: LOLLY POP - Elevator Operator (Danny Morris remix video) - Rockamerica 2007: LOLLY POP - Elevator Operator (Digital maxi single) - Modo Disco (UK) 2007: LOLLY POP (Self-titled debut and remixes) - Modo Disco (UK) 2008: THE PLASTIC CONSTELLATIONS - We Appreciate You (Songs: "Stay That Way", "So Many Friends") - Longtime Listener 2009: POP INC. - "Looking 4 The KLF" (Video - original edit and download card/maxi single) - Modo Disco (UK) / Rockamerica 2009: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 5 (Song: POP INC. - "Disenchanted") 2010: ANDRA - "Love Is 4 Suckaz" Mixtape (Song: Models & Bottles) - Krucial Noize/Kerry Brothers Jr 2010: POP INC. vs. SYMPHONO - "Looking 4 The KLF" (Single) - Ninthwave Records 2011: POP INC. - "BLVD (Boulevard of Broken Dreams)" (Video/DVD, digital maxi single) 2012: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 6 (Song: POP INC. - "Hollywood Kills") 2013: J-MI & MIDI-D - "Timeline" - Dance Dance Revolutionhttps://www.whosampled.com/Lolly-Pop/sampled/ 2014: glean - Echoes & Waves (EP) 2014: GRAHAM CRACKERS THEME SONG - "Steady On (True Blue)" featuring Phil Solem 2015: TOUCH GUITARS COMPILATION (Song: glean - "Mother") - Iapetus Berlin 2015: glean - Shadows & Sand (EP) 2016: A*O*A - "I'm Afraid of Americans" (Digital single) 2017: AIDAN CASSERLY - Spoken (Song: "April 21st") 2017: THE RUDE AWAKENING - "Pride" - Electro London 2017: LOLLY POP - LINGERIE: Lost Remixes & Bonus Tracks - Banoffeesound Records 2018: A*O*A - "I'm Afraid of Americans" (Remixes) 2019: FRODE HOLM - Third (Engineer, Vocal Producer, Backing Vocals) 2021: THE RED HOUR - "Cracks" - Manual Control Records 2022: BROOKE R. CALDER - "Everybody Loves Dancing" (Video and Digital Single) - Manual Control Records 2023: REGAL THE RARE f. Jellybean Johnson - "Blue Goo"(Songwriter) 2025: BURNING SHAKESPEARE - RADIO-FREE EP (Digital Reissue) - Manual Control Records 2025 - 2026: BROOKE R. CALDER - CINEMA - Currently in production.
References
Additional sources: The Static Dive Blog, July 30, 2022
City Pages Magazine, February 14, 2007 Rift Magazine, February 2007 Star Tribune, February 9, 2007 St. Paul Pioneer Press July 27, 2006 Rift Magazine, November 2005 Star Tribune, March 18, 2005 City Pages, May 25, 2005 Stone Roller Magazine, May 2004
External links Official website Record label website Myspace entry Discogs entry