She gets people happy very quickly. She's also a Renaissance woman who writes books, paints, sings and records original music, makes videos and graphics, and more, defying stereotypes and romping happily in the fields of her own creations. Lola does whatever The Presence moves her to do that day. Born in Texas in 1954, her Tennessee-born mom named her Bobbie Sue. Her family started out in a tiny two bedroom frame house on a dirt road, but somehow managed to get her a pony, Star Baby, for her ninth birthday, about the time their street got paved. many horses later, at sixteen, she traded the horse for a Ford Mustang, and soon moved to Austin, because it was happenin'.