Sy Snootles/Legends

"In my culture, vocal music is a sacred tradition, and it is the one thing that has kept me alive all this time."

- Sy Snootles

Sy Snootles was a Pa'lowick singer, and was also the lead vocalist for the Max Rebo Band while they were playing for Jabba Desilijic Tiure.

She was a very close friend with dancer Greeata Jendowanian, and did not sign to sing for Max until Greeata's position was secured as well. Snootles also had a great relationship with fellow band member Droopy McCool. One of Snootles' most famous songs was "Lapti Nek," also a favorite of Jabba. Her most notable characteristic was an incredibly long lip stalk.

Biography
During the Clone Wars, Sy had dated and loved Ziro Desilijic Tiure. After Jabba imprisoned by the Galactic Republic, Sy heard of the devious scheme that Ziro had done, kidnapping Jabba Desilijic Tiure's son Rotta. When Ziro was freed from prison, Jabba hired Sy to steal the Hutt's diary, as it contained potentially damaging information. To make her cover convincing, Sy was a dancer for the Hutt Grand Council on Nal Hutta. There she freed Ziro from the captive Hutts by having the Gamorrean guards fight each other, distracting the others. Together they traveled to visit Ziro's mother, Mama, so they could borrow her starship. Sy then traveled with Ziro to Teth, where they found the secretly hidden diary at Ziro's father's grave. Sy felt her job was done and pointed a blaster at Ziro. Ziro pled for his life but to no avail, and Sy shot and killed the Hutt. She then returned to Tatooine with the diary and was paid by Jabba. Sy was later seen at a saloon on Nal hutta at the time when fugitives Morallo Eval, Cad Bane and a disguised Obi-Wan Kenobi went there to buy weapons and clothing.

Sy Snootles had big dreams of being a successful musician and was determined to see those aspirations realized at all costs. Teaming up with a Letaki singer, multi-instrumentalist and musical impressario named Evar Orbus, she became a singer in his Evar Orbus and His Galactic Wailers band. After Orbus's death during an altercation with Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes on Tatooine, Snootles saw her chance. Renaming the group the Max Rebo Band and persuading the group' amiable keyboardist Max Rebo take over as bandleader (thus providing an obvious target for bounty hunters and rival musicians), Sy planned to control the band safely from behind the scenes. At this time, she also convinced the Kitonak woodwind player Snit to adopt the more striking stage name "Droopy McCool" and hired a number of other musicians to fill out the band. Unfortunately for Sy, her ambitions were upset when a booking agent working for Jabba the Hutt approached the more pliable Rebo, who signed the band on to an exclusive contract at Jabba's Palace in exchange for a lifetime supply of free food.

Always pragmatic, Sy was outraged at the Ortolan's deal and often worked behind the Hutt's back, trying to revoke their arrangement with Jabba. She also worked as a spy amongst Jabba's varied enemies, giving information in exchange for extra credits besides her share of the Band's profits. In truth, Sy was acting as a double agent, as the information she shared with Jabba's enemies were, in truth, falsehoods provided to her by Bib Fortuna, the Hutt's majordomo.

After Jabba's death, the Max Rebo Band broke up and went their separate ways. Sy continued to pursue a solo career but found little success, due to the fact that most beings found her singing to be "weird." She was seen as a rival of fellow Pa'lowick singing sensation, Larisselle Chatrunis, a former Miss Coruscant winner. Despite the publicity, the rumored backstage drama did little for Sy's dwindling career, however, and the best she could muster were tours of the Outer Rim Territories under a variety of stage names.

Behind the scenes
Sy Snootles was originally portrayed as an elaborate puppet, but for the extended musical number in the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi, she was a CG character. In the Special Edition a frog-like mouth below the long, skinny one was removed, so that the CG character only had one mouth.

The puppet can still be seen in the Special Edition, in the first shot of the band sequence.

During the production of Return of the Jedi, Sy Snootles was referred to as Mrs. Snooty.

In Hunt for Ziro, Sy Snootles was voiced by Nika Futterman.

Appearances

 * Stop That Jawa!
 * A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi junior novel
 * Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi 1
 * Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
 * A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Oola's Tale
 * Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef
 * And the Band Played On: The Band's Tale
 * Of the Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale
 * Epilogue: Whatever Became Of...?
 * Vortex
 * Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef
 * And the Band Played On: The Band's Tale
 * Of the Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale
 * Epilogue: Whatever Became Of...?
 * Vortex

Non-canon appearances

 * The Emperor's Court
 * Return of the Ewok