Lolly Pop

Lolly Pop (born 1975) is an on-stage persona of Brooke R. Calder, produced by Ricardo Autobahn, Monte Moir and Doctor Fink.

Raised between the United States and Zimbabwe, Africa, Calder relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to work as a dancer for Prince in 1994.

Shortly after being cast in the New Power Generation (NPG)'s "Get Wild" video, she shifted to a studio apprenticeship with NPG keyboardist Morris Hayes.

Following completion, she served as a label intern with Twin/Tone Records, where she helped market side projects of Information Society, The Suburbs and Semisonic.

Calder next assembled Electro-kitsch act TELEPHONE!

and adopted the alias Lolly Pop.

In 2004, Calder partnered with First Avenue to raise money for the Tubman Alliance, and organized a female-fronted bill dubbed Girlfest.

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Circa 2006, Pop emerged as a solo artist produced by Fink, Moir and Autobahn.

In 2007, the self-made video for "Elevator Operator" was featured on RockAmerica while the single was used in the Dash Mihok film, Loveless in Los Angeles.

Lolly Pop also appeared at Winter Music Conference, guested in the Paul Moering short film, Climbing Trees, and worked closely with First Avenue.

Then recruited as the female vocalist for British outfit Pop Inc, she continued to contribute vocals to and/or produce American acts A*O*A, glean (with Rick McCollum of The Afghan Whigs), The Red Hour as well as British outfits Cuban Boys and Rude Awakening.

With The Rembrandts' Phil Solem, Calder co-wrote the theme song for the Launch TV comedy Graham Crackers.

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 2019, along with Jerome Benton and Ronnie Baker Brooks, Lolly Pop had a cameo appearance in the video for Jellybean Johnson's "Put Some Jelly On It".

She later co-wrote lyrics for the Johnson-helmed Regal The Rare collaboration "Blue Goo", bookending decades of creating with core members of The Minneapolis Sound.

As a result of her long term work, she was elected to the board of the Minneapolis Sound Museum in 2023.

Calder most recently collaborated with BBC award-winning director Martin Gooch on the short film Everybody Loves Dancing, co-founded the electronic music imprint, Manual Control Records and runs Calder Creative (a music, branding and business marketing firm) in Philadelphia.

During 2019, Calder helmed a suitcase and donations initiative for survivors of the Drake fire.