Carole Pope

Carole Pope is a British-born Canadian rock singer and songwriter known for her work with the band Rough Trade. Born in England, she moved with her family to Montreal at five and grew up in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, where she met Kevan Staples, her longtime musical partner, at a band audition. They began performing as a duo in Yorkville in 1968 and formed Rough Trade in 1975, with Pope often taking the stage in black leather and bondage attire. The group's first studio album was Avoid Freud. In 1981 she won a Juno for Most Promising Female Vocalist, adding Best Female Vocalist Junos in 1982 and 1983, and Rough Trade appeared in the horror film Deadline (1980). Her later solo work includes the EP Radiate, voicing the schoolteacher in Pippi Longstocking (1997), and the albums Transcend and Landfall.