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Bob Dylan American, b. 1941
Although internationally known as a singer and songwriter, Bob Dylan is also an author, film director, actor, disc jockey and visual artist. One of the most influential and, at times, controversial figures in music of the past five decades, he has sold over 110 million records around the world and, since 1988, has played around 100 shows a year in the ‘Never-Ending Tour’. He paints mostly from life: ‘I’m pretty much interested in people, histories, myth, and portraits; people of all stripes’. Dylan was born into a close-knit Jewish community in Duluth, Minnesota on 24 May, 1941. He moved to NewYork in 1961 and signed with Columbia Records. After his initial interest in rock ‘n’ roll, his focus shifted to folk and protest music. Many of Dylan’s early songs were made famous by other artists, such as Joan Baez, who promoted him and was his lover in the early sixties. In 1965 Dylan married Sarah Lowndes, with whom he would have four children and adopted her daughter from her first marriage. Divorced in 1977, he was married to Carolyn Dennis from 1986 to 1992 and had a daughter with her. In the late 1970s Dylan converted to evangelical Christianity, returning to Judaism in the 1980s and subsequently distancing himself from organised religion. Dylan has appeared alongside major artists such as George Harrison, the Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. Over five decades he has released more than 50 albums and written in excess of 500 songs, some of the most famous being ‘Blowin’ In TheWind’, ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ and ‘Like A Rolling Stone’. His songs have been covered more than 6,000 times by artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Guns N’ Roses, StevieWonder, Rod Stewart, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Adele and U2. Dylan’s contributions to worldwide culture have been recognised and honoured with many awards. He received an honorary doctorate of music from Princeton University,
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