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Bob Dylan
American musician
Also known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman
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Bob Dylan (born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold tens of millions of albums, wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists, performed all over the world, and set the standard for lyric writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. (See Editor’s Note: About the author.) He grew ...(100 of 2652 words)