Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter whose poetic and socially conscious lyrics profoundly influenced popular music, earning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
Dylan emerged from the folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, quickly becoming associated with the American civil rights and anti-war movements through songs like 'Blowin' in the Wind.'
His controversial decision to incorporate electric instrumentation in 1965, moving away from traditional acoustic folk music, alienated some fans but is now widely regarded as a pivotal and influential moment in popular music history.
Dylan has continued recording and touring for decades, and in 2016 became the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for creating new poetic expressions within the American song tradition.