Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singersongwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are aChangin became anthems for the American civil rights and antiwar movements. After he left his initial base in the American folk music revival, his sixminute single Like a Rolling Stone altered the range of popular music in 1965. His mid1960s recordings, backed by rock musicians, reached the top end of the United States music charts while also attracting denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.

Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St Marys Hospital on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior. He has a younger brother, David. Dylans paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire , to the United States following the antiSemitic pogroms of 1905. His maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. In his autobiography, Chronicles Volume One, Dylan wrote that his paternal grandmothers maiden name was Kirghiz and her family originated from Kazman district of Kars Province in northeastern Turkey.

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