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Bob Dylan (stage name Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941), is an American composer, singer, painter, actor, and writer.

Born in the state of Minnesota, grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, at the age of ten Dylan wrote his first poems and, as a teenager, taught himself piano and guitar. He began his career in rock groups, imitating Little Richard and Buddy Holly, but when he went to the University of Minnesota in 1959, he turned to folk music, impressed by the musical work of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, whom he visited in New York in 1961.

In 2004, he was elected by the renowned Rolling Stone magazine the 7th greatest singer of all time and, by the same magazine, the 2nd best music artist of all time, behind only the Beatles, and one of his main songs, "Like a Rolling Stone", was chosen as one of the best of all time. He directly influenced great names in American and British rock in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2012, Dylan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama.