The American singer/songwriter Bob Dylan has, according to music connoisseurs, an indelible mark on the contemporary pop music. In the sixties gold, due to his critical texts as the high priest of the protest movement of that time.
he is not so happy with his dubious role as the leader of the damaged, ” he wrote in 2004 in his Chronicles. He says that it is not at all related to feel with his rebellious peers. Preferably he keeps himself in the background as a folksinger to write songs about historical topics.
Christian sect
When the singer in the seventies, his style changed and the electric guitar around his neck, hooked a lot of lovers of the folkgenre. Also in the eighties, he received a lot of criticism when he joined a christian sect. Despite the quirky Dylan, for decades a source of inspiration for whole generations of young artists.
Bob Dylan was on may 24, 1941 was born in a jewish-Russian immigrantengezin as Robert Allen Zimmerman in the small town of Duluth in Minnesota. When he heard the music of Elvis Presley and Little Richard, he taught himself guitar and playing piano. Searching for the roots of rock and roll, he came to the country music of the singer Woody Guthrie, his idol.
Prefer to action
Dylan studied briefly literature, but he entered the rather. In 1961 he took the stage name Bob Dylan. He would himself have named after the famous poet Dylan Thomas.
Although Dylan never megahits harvested, gold he at 25 years of age as the most important and influential singer of the sixties. With the song Blowin’ in the wind (1963), he continued to definitively make his mark on this period. Dylan was to the public at large, especially famous, because others are songs played. So have The Byrds to a number of his songs on the album, including Mr. Tambourine man.
praised to Heaven
With his album Planet Waves (1974), he reached for the first time the number 1 on the lp charts. With the album Desire, he conquered in 1975, again on the first place. After a few poorly received cd’s, on which his voice still nasaler and raspiger sounded, his blackened Time out of Mind from 1997 the praised to heaven. In 2006, he brought on his 65th birthday, the cd Modern Times, which is worldwide, with good reviews received.
Dylan continues to be a bard at heart, and kidneys. His wealth, in spite of, could the singer not say goodbye to the stage and he began in 1988 on his Never Ending Tour. That still continues, and brought him under more last year in the Netherlands.
Previously nominated
His fans was Dylan’s texts of such a high literary content that the artist (who, in 1970, the novel Tarantula wrote) in 1997 voordroegen for the Nobel prize for literature. “He deserves the nomination because of the influence of his songs and his literature in the whole world”, said the American professor Gordon Ball.
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