Rhoda Dakar began her musical career as lead vocalist with all-female 2Tone band, The Bodysnatchers.

In 1980 they released two classic songs of the 2Tone era, 'Let's Do Rocksteady' and 'Easy Life'. After a year together they split and Rhoda went on to guest with The Specials in Europe and the USA, having featured on their second album, 'More Specials', for which she won the first of her seven gold records.

After their demise, and before joining Jerry Dammers' new project The Special AKA, she recorded The Bodysnatchers' first original song, 'The Boiler', a harrowing tale of date rape, which was inevitably banned. The Special AKA spent the next two years recording 'In The Studio', spawning a top 10 hit with the vital, era-defining 'Free Nelson Mandela'. In recent years Rhoda has recorded the lost 2Tone album Rhoda Dakar sings The Bodysnatchers and worked with musicians including Madness, Dub Pistols and Dr. Robert of the Blow Monkeys.