Pantara - Are You Ready

Bio By She Rox All Female Bands: It is no secret that the music industry is flawed, long forgotten are the days when real musicians became successful by hard work and dedication to their craft. Successful artists are merely replicated and made overnight, thanks in part to the many mundane competition shows overloading modern day music. The road for women musicians has always been far from easy, having to prove themselves as competent, if not better to their male counter parts. The music industry has left many, that should have been successful, a mere footnote in a long history of undiscovered gems. The 1980’s as a musical decade was progressive by many standards, women musicians were far from inconspicuous, but the idea of a band solely of women was still quite the novelty, even by the 1980’s. A handful of early all female bands broke the barriers and re-wrote music history, New Jersey based hard rockers, Pantara were indeed one of these bands. Formed in 1982, by guitarist Sabrina Lauren and drummer Barbara S