Izora Rhodes Armstead was one half of the 1980s pop group the Weather Girls. Born Izora Rhodes, she linked up with Sylvester and Patrick Cowley in San Francisco in the late 1970s as a backup singer, along with Martha Wash. At that time they were called Two Tons O' Fun or simply Two Tons. Later, in 1979, she and Wash formed The Weather Girls. Their hit single "It's Raining Men" was to prove one of the most successful song of the Hi-NRG music genre, hitting number 1 on the club chart.

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  • Izora Rhodes Armstead was one half of the 1980s pop group the Weather Girls. Born Izora Rhodes, she linked up with Sylvester and Patrick Cowley in San Francisco in the late 1970s as a backup singer, along with Martha Wash. At that time they were called Two Tons O' Fun or simply Two Tons. Later, in 1979, she and Wash formed The Weather Girls. Their hit single "It's Raining Men" was to prove one of the most successful song of the Hi-NRG music genre, hitting number 1 on the club chart. After she and Wash parted company in the late 1980s, Armstead moved to Germany and formed the German version of the Weather Girls with her daughter, Dynell. In 2002 the group entered the German Final to Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "Get Up", finishing 13th out of 15. She died of heart failure at the age of 62 in 2004.
  • Izora Rhodes Armstead war eine US-amerikanische Disco-Queen. Sie war zwei Mal verheiratet und hatte sieben Kinder. Sie war Teil des Pop-Duos „The Weather Girls“. Zweites Mitglied war Martha Wash. Mitte der 1980er Jahre waren die beiden relativ erfolgreich. Ihren größten Hit landeten sie 1982 mit dem Song „It's Raining Men“, der wochenlang den ersten Platz in den amerikanischen Dance-Charts belegte. Da dem Hit keine weiteren folgten, trennten sich die beiden. Izora Rhodes Armstead zog nach Deutschland, wo sie in den 1990er Jahren gemeinsam mit ihrer Tochter Dynelle Rhodes das Duo wieder aufleben ließ. Unter anderem nahmen sie 2002 an der Vorausscheidung zum Eurovision Song Contest teil. Kurz vor ihrem Tod kehrte sie zur Behandlung eines Herzleidens nach Kalifornien zurück, wo sie am 16. September 2004 in einem Krankenhaus starb.
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  • Izora Rhodes Armstead was one half of the 1980s pop group the Weather Girls. Born Izora Rhodes, she linked up with Sylvester and Patrick Cowley in San Francisco in the late 1970s as a backup singer, along with Martha Wash. At that time they were called Two Tons O' Fun or simply Two Tons. Later, in 1979, she and Wash formed The Weather Girls. Their hit single "It's Raining Men" was to prove one of the most successful song of the Hi-NRG music genre, hitting number 1 on the club chart.
  • Izora Rhodes Armstead war eine US-amerikanische Disco-Queen. Sie war zwei Mal verheiratet und hatte sieben Kinder. Sie war Teil des Pop-Duos „The Weather Girls“. Zweites Mitglied war Martha Wash. Mitte der 1980er Jahre waren die beiden relativ erfolgreich. Ihren größten Hit landeten sie 1982 mit dem Song „It's Raining Men“, der wochenlang den ersten Platz in den amerikanischen Dance-Charts belegte. Da dem Hit keine weiteren folgten, trennten sich die beiden.
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