| Profile | |
| Birth name | Robert Allen Zimmerman |
| Also known as | Elston Gunn Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas. |
| Born | May 24, 1941 (1941-05-24) (age 67) Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, author, poet, screenwriter, disc jockey |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, piano, bass |
| Years active | 1959 "present |
| Label(s) | Columbia, Asylum |
| Associated acts | The Band, Traveling Wilburys, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| Website | www.bobdylan.com |
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, painter and disc jockey, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in Read more...
Dylan married Sara Lownds on November 22, 1965; their first child, Jesse Byron Dylan, was born on January 6, 1966. Bob and Sara Dylan had four children: Jesse Byron, Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abraham, and Jakob Luke (born December 9, 1969). Dylan also adopted Sara's daughter from a prior marriage, Maria Lownds (later Dylan), (born October 21, 1961 now married to musician Peter Himmelman). In the 1990s Read more...