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Chap spent age making music (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reggae

'music' is the definition.
(I know that reggae is a type of popular music)

'chap spent age' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'reg' ().
'spent' indicates anagramming the letters.
'age' is an anagram of 'gae'.
'reg'+'gae'='REGGAE'

'making' is the link.

(Other definitions for reggae that I've seen before include "Jamaican musical style" , "Jamaican music style" , "West Indian music with strong subsidiary beat" , "Music style from Jamaica" , "Type of music developed in Jamaica in the 1960s" .)

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