Chris Doherty is a musician

Musician

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, singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 best known as the founder of hardcore punk

Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 band Gang Green

Gang Green

Gang Green is a band originally from Braintree, Massachusetts. Chris Doherty , Bill Manley and Mike Dean started the band in 1980 and broke up in 1984...

. Doherty graduated from Braintree High School

Braintree High School

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 in 1983.

Gang Green

The lone constant in the lineup, lead singer/guitarist Chris Doherty has remained with Gang Green, off and on, for more than two decades. He formed the first incarnation of Gang Green in 1982, the second in 1985, and a third in 1997. They still continue to play live shows in the Boston area.

1980s

Doherty joined punk band, Jerry's Kids

Jerry's Kids

Jerry's Kids is one of the earliest Boston hardcore bands, formed in 1981, from Braintree, Mass.. Their first recorded output was on the Modern Method This Is Boston, Not L.A. compilation LP in 1982. They contributed six tracks along with other early Boston Hardcore band Gang Green.Frontman Bryan...

 in 1982, and later moved on to Stranglehold and the ska

Ska

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 band the Cheapskates.

1990s

Doherty formed and fronted Klover

Klover

Klover was a short lived Boston punk band consisting of Mike Stone on vocals and guitar, Chris Doherty on lead guitar, Darren Hill on bass and Brian Betzger on drums.They released only one album, "Feel Lucky Punk?" and an EP, "Beginning To End" on Mercury Records in 1995 and...

, a punk band which released one album, Feel Lucky Punk?, on Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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 in 1995. After Klover

Klover

Klover was a short lived Boston punk band consisting of Mike Stone on vocals and guitar, Chris Doherty on lead guitar, Darren Hill on bass and Brian Betzger on drums.They released only one album, "Feel Lucky Punk?" and an EP, "Beginning To End" on Mercury Records in 1995 and...

broke up, he formed another band, Hamerd, before reforming the current version of Gang Green in 1997.