Snootles, Sy

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Sy Snootles

Basic Information -

Species: Pa'lowick
Gender: Female
Height: 1.6 meters
Affiliation: Max Rebo Band

Movie Information -

Sy Snootles was the lead singer of the Max Rebo Band. The flamboyant Snootles somehow managed to squeeze a huge voice out of ruby lips on the end of her thin protruding mouth-stalk. She could even reach the loudest high notes of such songs as "Lapti Nek."

Expanded Universe -

Easily the most pragmatic of the flighty members of the Max Rebo Band, Sy Snootles was determined to make a name for herself and carve out a successful musical career.

Though she remains tight-lipped about her early career, Snootles and Max were together when the band was under the managerial and creative control of Evar Orbus. When Orbus was killed on Tatooine, Max put his name on the ensemble.

The food-obsessed Max Rebo negotiated a long-term contract with Jabba the Hutt. Snootles was outraged to find out Max's deal specified the band would be paid in meals, and not money. She tried desperately to get out of the contract, but her furtive searches for loopholes and escape routes were done discreetly to avoid raising the ire of their Hutt benefactor.

The Pa'lowick singer found a way to earn actual credits by working as a spy for a number of Jabba's enemies. Rather than risk death by rancor, Sy was actually a double agent, disseminating false information provided to her by Bib Fortuna.

The singer never realized just how good she had it with steady paying work. When Jabba's criminal empire collapsed, Snootles' information racket dried up and the Max Rebo Band split up. Snootles tried to make it on her own, but her recordings never sold. She ended up touring Outer Rim dives under a number of stage names.