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When did Derek Walcott start making music?
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Derek Walcott's first song “Ruins of a Great House” released on January 1, 1953.
A Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex. He is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright who won the 1992 Nobel prize of Literature. Some of his most well known works are his 1990 poem Omeros and his 1971 play Dream on Monkey Mountain.
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