BOB DYLAN

Robert Allen Zimmermann, perhaps better to call him as everyone knows with the name of Bob Dylan.
He was born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota.

Bob developed a genuine passion for American rural music, country, blues and nascent rock'n'roll.
He studied at the University of Minneapolis, to perform in the local Folk and Rock towns he chooses the name of Bob Dylan.

Early in his career she received several criticisms because of his different style than him. The lyrics of his songs talked about the social issues of that period and impressed young people a lot.
Bob managed to blend folk, soul, country, Irish and Scottish folk music.



After a while, the interest in his music increases to the point of obtaining an audition with John Hammond who signs a recording contract for him; consists of a collection of international songs. Inside there were only two of the songs written by the artist which are Talin 'New York and the tribute to the master Guthrie Song to Woody. In '62 Bob began writing lyrics describing the protest of that time, destined to remain in the minds of the people, becoming hymns for all those who fought for civil rights.
A few decades later the artist became a popular idol, such as to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1992 a concert was organized in his honor in New York.
In 2008 he won very important Pulitzer Prizes and in 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for having "created a new expressive poetics within the great American singing tradition".