Bob Dylan was a highly influential singer-songwriter born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota under the name Robert Allen Zimmerman. He grew up in Hibbing where he graduated high school. Using his distinctive voice and memorable lyrics, Dylan brought together music and literature in a unique way. He received many honors over his career including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first musician to receive the Nobel.

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3. Who was Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th century whose
career began in the early 1960s with songs that chronicled social issues like war and civil
rights.
Folk rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth Minessota , his
real name was Robert Allen Zimmerman . His parents’ names were Abram and Beatrice
Zimmerman. He and his younger brother David were raised in the community of Hibbing,
where he graduated from Hibbing High School in 1959.
With his unmistakable voice and unforgettable lyrics, Dylan brought the worlds of music
and literature together as no one else had.
In addition to winning Grammy, Academy and Golden Globe awards, Dylan received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012. On October 13,
2016, the legendary singer-songwriter also received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first
time the honor was bestowed on a musician. He became the first American to receive the
honor since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993, and was lauded by the Swedish Academy "for
having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."