Lotti Golden (born November 27, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, poet and artist. A cult icon of the late 1960s, Golden is best known for her 1969 debut album, Motor-Cycle on Atlantic Records which "captured women's liberation and motorcycle soul in one psychedelic swoop."Winner of the ASCAP Pop Award for songwriting and RIAA certified Gold and Platinum awards as a writer/producer, Golden has written and produced Top 5 hits in the US and abroad. Credited for her innovative work in early electro and Hip hop music, Golden is featured in the Rap Attack 3: African Rap To Global Hip Hop by David Toop, and Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: True Life Stories of Women of Pop for her pioneering work as a female record producer.
Lotti Golden is a seminal figure in Rock and Hip Hop as an artist and writer/producer. ., acclaimed for her late ’60s Atlantic LP “Motor-Cycle,” described as the Velvet Underground meets Motown, and her contribution to the development of hip hop in the early ’80s with hits like “Light Years Away” by Warp 9, described in the Guardian as the “cornerstone of beat box Afrofuturism.” Golden appears in several books on rock and rap music.
Lotti Golden is a seminal figure in Rock and Hip Hop as an artist and writer/producer. ., acclaimed for her late ’60s Atlantic LP “Motor-Cycle,” described as the Velvet Underground meets Motown, and her contribution to the development of hip hop in the early ’80s with hits like “Light Years Away” by Warp 9, described in the Guardian as the “cornerstone of beat box Afrofuturism.” Golden appears in several books on rock and rap music.