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When did Langston Hughes's first album release?
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Langston Hughes's first album The Weary Blues released on January 10, 1926.
Born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri; James Mercer Langston Hughes was a leading poet in the Harlem Renaissance, expertly writing multitudes of jazz poetry with his own unique forms. Strongly influenced by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Walt Whitman, Hughes' first poetry collection was The Weary Blues (1926), and his novel Not Without... Read More
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