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Greeata joined the Max Rebo Band as a backup singer and dancer for some of the ensemble's gigs, including their performance at Jabba's palace. Her orange hair and ample jewelry ensured she got noticed even by listeners lacking musical taste.

The Max Rebo Band was a jazzy ensemble that played gigs from one side of the galaxy to the other. The band was normally a trio, but leader Max Rebo often added vocalists, additional musicians and dancers for clients who wanted a fuller sound and a bigger spectacle. Jabba the Hutt was a big fan, and hired Max's group to play in his palace overlooking Tatooine's Dune Sea.

Sy Snootles, a long-limbed Pa'lowick, was a popular singer and dancer whose patrons included Jabba the Hutt. Very few realized that she also worked as a spy for the Hutt criminal cartels, and that she betrayed her love, Ziro the Hutt, in exchange for a big payday.

A single, winding dirt-swept road curves up into the crook of a rocky canyon, leading to a lone structure in the desert wastes beyond the Dune Sea of Tatooine. Here stood the palace of Jabba the Hutt, an immense curving building of sandblasted metal and pitted stone. Inside, the dregs of the galaxy congregated to do all manner of illicit business, to curry favor with the grotesque crime lord, or to avoid his fickle wrath. Jabba reclined atop a stone dais within the throne room of his palace, a bustling chamber that overlooked a secret pit that contained his favorite beast, the vicious rancor monster.

Jabba the Hutt was one of the galaxy’s most powerful gangsters, with far-reaching influence in both politics and the criminal underworld. There were no second chances with Jabba, something Han Solo would find out -- though the slug-like alien would ultimately fall victim to his own hubris and vengeful ways.

A shaggy Yuzzum with a big stage presence and an even bigger voice, Joh Yowza sometimes sang with the Max Rebo Band. Even the most jaded music fans found it hard to ignore the vocal fireworks of his duets with Sy Snootles.