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Born: May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, US
Full Name: Robert Allen Zimmermann
Instruments/roles: guitar, harmonica, vocals, composer
Profile: Dylan was a successful performer of both folk and rock music. He had
an enormous influence on the music of the 1960s, with many young musicians
copying his style and writing about important issues. As a songwriter, singer,
and performer, his music was used to spark protests against the Vietnam War,
poverty, and inequality.
Bob Dylan (born May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; really Robert Allen
Zimmerman) is an American folk and rock musicians, poets and painters. Bob Dylan
sings, plays guitar, harmonica and piano and is considered one of the most
influential musicians of the 20th Century.
Dylan began in the late 1950s as a folk musician and turned to the mid-1960s
rock music. His lyrics were influenced at the beginning of his work from the
contents of the folk movement and one of its most famous representative, Woody
Guthrie, and later by the symbolist poets like Arthur Rimbaud, Charles
Baudelaire and Dylan Thomas, but also from the Bible.
By Melanie Bradley
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