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But he started off with Dancehall and that’s where he took his first steps towards live performance. In the well known “Neons”-club at Steinhagen near Bielefeld he held a microphone in his hand for the first time in 1984. On this occasion he sang his lyrics in Jamaican Patois to up-to-date riddims such as “Sleng-Teng” and “Get Flat” and was accompanied by friends of Jamaican origin who came to Germany with the British army. During that time his friends gave him the name “Banton” which is the Jamaican name for a DJ who’s full of lyrics.