With the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard, and Elvis Presley.
His maternal grandparents, Florence and Ben Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the US in 1902. His birth name was Robert Allen Zimmerman, and he was born in Duluth, Minnesota.īob's paternal grandparents, Anna Kirghiz and Zigman Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the US in the early 1900s. How old is Bob Dylan, what is his real name and where is he from?īob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941.In 2016, he was even awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Over the years, he has tried out various genres ranging from jazz to gospel to country, and is now one of the best-selling artists of all time.ĭuring his career, he has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 10 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar.
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