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Timeline: Reggae in Boston

1968 - 2009
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 21, 2009

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Buju Banton

1991

Eighteen-year-old Buju Banton plays Boston for the first time at Skycap Plaza. A teenage Lady Lee opens.

The Channel in Fort Point mysteriously goes out of business.

READ: Reggae Revival: Booming in Boston's underground, Caribbean riddims are about to burst back into the mainstream. By Chris Faraone

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