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Buju Banton was born in [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], [[Jamaica]] in a poor neighborhood called Salt Lane. Buju is a [[nickname]] given to [[obesity|chubby]] children that means [[breadfruit]] in [[Jamaican Patois|Jamaican]] and was given to him by his mother as a child. ''Banton'' is a Jamaican word that refers to someone who is a respected storyteller, and it was adopted by Myrie in tribute to the [[Deejay (Jamaican)|deejay]] [[Burro Banton]], whom Buju admired as a child.<ref name="Thompson">Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6</ref> It was Burro's rough gravelly vocals that Buju emulated and ultimately made his own. Buju's mother was a [[higgler]], or [[street vendor]], while his father worked as a labourer at a [[tile]] [[factory]]. He was the youngest of fifteen children born into a family that was directly descended from the [[maroon (people)|Maroons]] of Jamaica.

 

 

===Early career===