Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan · Arts & Literature
Singer-Songwriter
1941, Duluth, Minnesota, United States
United States (Minnesota · New York)
Bob Dylan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Singer-Songwriter
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman to a Jewish family in Minnesota, Dylan drew on folk, blues and the American songbook to create songs of unprecedented literary force. From the early 1960s his lyrics fused poetry with popular music, shaping the culture of a generation and expanding what a song could say. In 2016 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'.
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Source: Nobel Prize Literature 2016
Singer-Songwriter
Source: Nobel Prize Literature 2016
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