Born on the 24th May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA as Robert Allen
Zimmerman. His father Abraham, worked for the Standard Oil Company. When
Robert was 6 years old, they moved to a small town called Hibbing were he
went to school. After graduation from High School in 1959, he left for
Minneapolis to follow his studies at the
University of Minnesota. Here his love for
contemporary rock and roll came up and he
listened to endless music by Hank Williams,
Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie. His
passion for music was so huge that he
began skipping classes and also began to play
his music at small local nightspots. Here he
preformed with his guitar, harmonica and even
worked on his 'notorious' nasal voice. Eventually, Robert changed his name to
Bob Dylan. The name Dylan was assumed to be taken from the late Welsh
poet, Dylan Thomas, although Bob Dylan continues to deny this as fact to this
In 1961, the 20 year old Bob Dylan dropped out of college and moved to New
York to further his profession as a song writer and poet. This was where he was
discovered as a young singer-songwriter while performing at Gerde's
Folk City. Columbia Records got Dylan to sign a contract
and in early 1962. His debu...