"Rhoda Than You"

"Rhoda Than You"
Rhoda Dakar
August 17, 1959

Rhoda Dakar is a British singer and musician, best known as the lead singer for the 2 Tone Bands; Originally from The Body Snatchers ( The Bodysnatchers were a seven-piece all-female band involved in the British 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s and early 1980s.) , and later with The Specials/ Special AKA. She is still active making music and have released albums as a Solo artist.

I discovered Rhoda through a 2 Tone Compilation album called "Dance Craze" a live compilation album, contributing the song "EAsy Life" and the locally released "2Tone Story" ( Under Chrysalis Records) contributing the song "Ruder Than you" Where she was a part of the band The Body Snatchers.
both albums were amazing as i got easily hooked up with Ska music.

However , as compared to The Specials, The Beat, Madness, and Bad Manners more especially The Selecter ( Fronted by the amazing Pauline Black), The Body Snatchers however was the only band on that record who never released an album.
it was regrettably sad that the band didnt live long enough to atleast make a full album. especially the band offers a different sound as compared to the other bands on the compilation.

Rhoda , aside from The Body Snatchers, was also part of The Specials/Special AKA incarnation that was featured on the 2Tone Story in the song featured " War Crimes" and " Nelson Mandela" .
After the trio of Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staples defected with The Specials and later formed Fun Boy Three , and incidentally the abrupt demise of The Body Snatchers, Rhoda was recruited by Jerry Dammers

Rhoda was featured on The Special AKA, album "In The Studio" which was released in 1984, it did produced a couple of hits especially ' Free Nelson MAndela" however the band did not recapture the success it previously enjoy with Hall , Staples and Golding at the Helm.

though success was too shy to fly over Rhoda Dakar and would leave that impression of " the other female singer " in that genre, behind Pauline Black, and " the other singer" in her own band behind Stan Campbell, Dakar continued showed a flash of Brilliance in tracks like " Bright Lights" and " The Boiler"

The times were changing as she would take hiatus .she would resurface in 2007 , after 13 years for her long overdue solo record "Cleaning in Another Woman's Kitchen"

In 2015, she returned to the studio to re-record The Bodysnatchers tracks for the album Rhoda Dakar Sings the Bodysnatchers. The line up for the recording included Lynval Golding and Horace Panter from The Specials, plus members of Pama International and Intensified.

Assumed as the "Missing" 2Tone album, Dakar recapture the vibes and reliving the glory days of Ska's second coming .

Rhoda is very much active in releasing new music , releasing new music , and LP recently and also digitally on her Bandcamp page.