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Paul Archibald Brent

1907–1997

United States

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Paul Archibald Brent (March 4, 1907, Baltimore – March 11, 1997, Baltimore) was an American musician, the first African American to attend the prestigious Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated in 1953.

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