Celebrity Name : Bob Dylan

Celebrity Real Name : Robert Zimmerman

Date of Birth : May 24, 1941

Birth Location : Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Biography :
Robert Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and was raised there and in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range northwest of Lake Superior.Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan’s best known work is from the 1960s when he became an informal documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest. Some of his songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’”,became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements. Forty years later, his 2001 album “Love and Theft”, reached the top five on the charts in the U.S. and the UK. His latest studio album, Modern Times, released on August 29, 2006, became his first US #1 album in thirty years, making him the oldest living chart topper in history at the age of 65.

Career :His career accomplishments have been recognized with the Polar Music Prize, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters and Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was listed as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the 20th century.In the fall of 1980 Dylan briefly resumed touring, restoring several of his most popular 1960s songs to his repertoire, for a series of concerts billed as “A Musical Retrospective”. Shot of Love, recorded the next spring, featured Dylan’s first secular compositions in more than two years, mixed with explicitly Christian songs. The haunting “Every Grain of Sand” reminded some critics of William Blake’s verses.[wikipedia]