Carole Pope
- Actress
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Carole Pope and Rough Trade, known for their sexual lyrics and
provocative act, ushered Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to
the new wave sound of the 1980s and catapulted themselves into the
international music scene. Attracting what Carole calls "a diversified
audience, and other artists who were practicing their own forms of
nihilism," Pope learned how to preen with the best of them and let the
raunch shine through. In her recent autobiography Anti Diva, Pope
offers a no-holds-barred look at her adventures in the music scene --
on the concert stage, in the recording studio, in the bedroom -- and
tells of all the mind-blowing, gender-bending parties along the way. In
Carole's early days, she partied with Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Bill Murray, and
Dan Aykroyd in their Saturday Night Live (1975) heyday, had a love affair with Dusty Springfield;
starred with drag queen Divine in the stage play "Restless Underwear"
and sang high opera; toured with David Bowie and played the Womyn's
Festival. Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the
diva and anti-diva in all of us. Carole never hesitates to risk it all.
Carole has earned three Juno Awards, a Genie Award, and four Gold and
two Platinum records. She is an icon of transgressive music. A new CD
as well as a TVO production of Shaking the Foundations, a musical based
on Rough Trade's songs, premiered in the fall of 2000. Carole Pope now
lives in West Hollywood, California where she continues to write and
record new music for her upcoming album release.
