American singer-songwriter, painter and writer Bob Dylan was born 83 years ago as Robert Allen Zimmerman in Minnesota, USA, is divorced and has 6 children.
During his childhood and teenage years, he listened to different music genres including blues, country and rock ‘n’ roll. Whilst in High School, he formed various bands and sang covers of Elvis Presley’s and Little Richard’s songs. Meanwhile, his music genre interest changed to American folk music and in 1961 he paid a visit to his idol Woody Guthrie in New York.
A year after, his first album was released, which included the songs ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s a-gonna fall’, amongst others. More albums followed until 1966, when he had a motorcycle accident and he had to temporarily quit touring. During his recovery, Bob wrote and recorded several songs which were later released in an album.
Throughout his +60-year career, Dylan released 111 albums spread amongst studio, compilation, video, live and soundtrack, 102 singles, 24 EPs, 25 Box Sets, 17 Bootleg Series and 61 Music Videos. He has written more than 500 songs which were recorded by various artists all over the world.
Bob has been a major influence on numerous music genres and is considered as one of the most prominent profiles, both in music and culture, of the 20th century. His records sold over 125 million copies worldwide, and he is considered as one of the most significant songwriters in history and best-selling artists ever.
He won 15 awards including an Academy and a Golden Globe, 10 Grammy and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bob was also honoured with a Pulitzer Prize citation as well as a Nobel Prize in Literature and was inducted in the Rock and Roll, Songwriters and Nashville Songwriters Halls of Fame, amongst other accolades and honours.
Apart from music, Dylan is a paintings artist and prime art galleries showcased his works. He has also published 9 Art books, 8 books regarding poetry and song lyrics and 23 biographies. In addition, a large amount of books about him were published.
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