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TOUR 2024 : FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FRANCE !
AVAILABLE BOOKING 2024 – 2025
Rhoda Dakar began her musical career as lead vocalist with all female 2Tone band, The Bodysnatchers in 1979. She went on to record with The Specials, The Special AKA and Madness, along with her solo work. She has 7 gold albums and 1 silver covering these and other recording projects. Rhoda is also a respected DJ and toured the Americas and Europe as support to The Selecter in 2019 and The Specials in 2016 as special guest.
Rhoda has a five-piece backing band, The Lotek Four, and has once again begun to play live. Though times are straightened for independent artists after Covid, she did manage a short tour with her band in March last year, supported by Arts Council England. She is planning to repeat this early this year, to coincide with her new album launch. In the past few years, Rhoda has played with pick up bands in the USA, the Czech Republic and Germany. Her last international gigs were in Australia in early 2020.
Recently, Rhoda has released a series of five singles on Sunday Best Records with artwork designed by renowned Sheffield artist Pete McKee. In fact, Pete has repurposed some of the artwork for other projects; most recently the cover of his 2023 calendar and a wonderful 2Tone inspired slipmat! On of her most recent singles, a Reggae cover of As Tears Go By, got a Twitter endorsement from none other than Elvis Costello! He called it a “beautiful, trippy rendition of the mighty melancholia of Jagger/Richards”. Her album, Version Girl, was released on 26 May 2023.
TOUR 2024 :
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FRANCE !
25th JANUARY – LA BATTERIE – GUYANCOURT (78)
26th JANUARY – LE HANGAR – IVRY-SUR-SEINE (94)
27th JANUARY – LE TAMANOIR – GENNEVILLIER (92)