Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

music department, composer, actor

Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in USA. Bob Dylan's big-screen debut came with Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1973, strarring Alias. Bob Dylan is known for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid directed by Sam Peckinpah, James Coburn stars as Pat Garrett and Kris Kristofferson as Billy The Kid. Bob Dylan has got 23 awards and 41 nominations so far. The most recent award Bob Dylan achieved is Nobel Prize. The upcoming new movie Bob Dylan plays is We Have A Dream which will be released on Jan 28, 2016.

Robert Allen Zimmerman was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the University of Minnesota and began performing as Bob Dylan at clubs in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The following year he went to New York, performed in Greenwich Village folk clubs, and spent much time in the hospital room of his hero Woody Guthrie. Late in 1961 Columbia signed him to a contract and the following year released his first album, containing two original songs. Next year "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" appeared, with all original songs including the 1960s anthem "Blowin' in the Wind." After several more important acoustic/folk albums, and tours with Joan Baez, he launched into a new electric/acoustic format with 1965's "Bringing It All Back Home" which, with The Byrds' cover of his "Mr Tambourine Man," launched folk-rock. The documentary Dont Look Back (1967) was filmed at this time; he broke off his relationship with Baez and by the end of the year had married Sara Dylan (born Sara Lowndes). Nearly killed in a motorcycle accident 29 July 1966, he withdrew for a time of introspection. After more hard rock performances, his next albums were mostly country. With his career wandering (and critics condemning the fact), Sam Peckinpah asked him to compose the score for, and appear in, his Pat Garrett et Billy le Kid (1973) - more memorable as a soundtrack than a film. In 1974 he and The Band went on tour, releasing his first #1 album, "Planet Waves". It was followed a year later by another first-place album, "Blood on the Tracks". After several Rolling Thunder tours, the unsuccessful film Renaldo et Clara (1978) and a divorce, he stunned the music world again by his release of the fundamentalist Christrian album "Slow Train Coming," a cut from which won him his first Grammy. Many tours and albums later, on the eve of a European tour May 1997, he was stricken with histoplasmosis (a possibly fatal infection of the heart sac); he recovered and appeared in Bologna that September at the request of the Pope. In December he received the Kennedy Center Award for artistic excellence.

  • Birthday

    May 24, 1941
  • Place of Birth

    Duluth, Minnesota, USA
  • Also known

    Traveling Wilburys, Robert Allen Zimmerman, Blind Boy Grunt, The Bard, The Voice of a Generation, The Voice of Protest, Zimbo, Zimmy, Sergei Petrov, Lucky Wilbury, Robert Zimmerman, Boo Wilbury

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Awards

23 wins & 41 nominations

Nobel Prize
2016
"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
Winner - Nobel Prize in Literature
Grammy Awards
2007
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Winner - Grammy
2007
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
Winner - Grammy
2007
Best Rock Song
Winner - Grammy
2006
Best Long Form Music Video
Winner - Grammy
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
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