Lolly Pop
American musician
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.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16215493. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2004 and 2007.
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