Good ska bands with prominent female members?

Especially leads, but even just any with a permanent female band member. I know of a few, but not too many. I know it's a male dominated genre but, still, there's gotta be more ladies out there.

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Permalink Reply by Skibz McCullock on November 26, 2008 at 7:00pm

Here's an old thread: 'Women in Contemporary Ska'. It lists a bunch of them, from trad to ska-punk.

Off the top of my head (really!), I remember Franceska, Highball Holiday, Suspect Bill, Isaac Green and the Skalars, Ocean 11, early Mobtown, the Checkered Cabs, Mealticket, The Robustos and the Usuals.

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Permalink Reply by MamaCass on November 26, 2008 at 9:56pm

sweet! and only one repeat. thank you much :)

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Permalink Reply by Miss Upsetter on December 14, 2008 at 11:03pm

the dreamlets
kinky coo coos
the pepperpots

and tons of older stuff out there

patsy todd
doreen shaffer
phyllis dillon
dawn penn
marcia griffiths
I could go on and on, but it'd be easier just to get trojan's reggae sisters box set. There were a lot more women involved in the JA scene in the early days than there are now...

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Permalink Reply by lalabooobs on December 16, 2008 at 3:37am

THE SELECTER and the body snatchers?
and this one band called trains tone is pretty sweet.

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Permalink Reply by Aidan on December 16, 2008 at 10:48am

Tip the van,
Sonic Boom Six.

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Permalink Reply by Simon on December 16, 2008 at 1:34pm

for me the best voice in jamaican music is phyllis dillon, cant get enough of it!!
also check out 'long days short nights' by dawn penn, its on my page. i swear down you wont wanna stop listening to it.

dont know much about the newer bands but i heard a version of sam cookes cupid by 'the Usuals'. dont know any of there other songs or anything about this band, except her voice is gorgeouse!!

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Lyons on December 16, 2008 at 11:43pm

Miss Upsetter said:

the dreamlets
kinky coo coos
the pepperpots

and tons of older stuff out there

patsy todd
doreen shaffer
phyllis dillon
dawn penn
marcia griffiths
I could go on and on, but it'd be easier just to get trojan's reggae sisters box set. There were a lot more women involved in the JA scene in the early days than there are now...

Damn! You took all my suggestions!

Well, almost all..

Police & Thieves

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Permalink Reply by chexas on December 17, 2008 at 3:21am

chase long beach and sonic boom six and kevin goes to college also the best of the worst, not to mention canon law.

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Permalink Reply by Skibz McCullock on December 17, 2008 at 11:07am

We already have two other threads recommending female-fronted ska bands. Let's not start another one.

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Permalink Reply by MamaCass on December 17, 2008 at 3:12pm

Skibz McCullock said:

We already have two other threads recommending female-fronted ska bands. Let's not start another one.

I wasn't aware of that. I don't usually go through old threads when I want to know something, I just ask. If you don't want to answer you're welcome to ignore it. Although I can't say I think it's a bad thing to repeat old thoughts, perhaps something that was missed in one of the previous threads will end up in this one. Even if that's not the case I'm pretty sure no one's being hurt by this thread and I certainly appreciate the answers. Weren't you the first one to make recommendations, anyway?