Bob Dylan

 Robert Allen Zimmerman was conceived in Duluth on May 24, 1941. His father, Abe, worked at Standard Oil Co. Sixteen years later, the family relocated to Hibbing. Hibbing is often considered the coldest area within the US. He learned guitar and piano and was also a part of various high school bands. He enrolled in the University of Minnesota in 1959 and began to perform at venues in Minneapolis, St. Paul as Bob Dylan. In the following year, he moved to New York, performed in Greenwich Village folk clubs, and spent much time in the hospital of his idol Woody Guthrie. Columbia signed him in 1961, and in the following year, his debut album was released. It included two of his original songs. The following year "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" appeared, with every original song, including the 1960s' classic "Blowin in the Wind." After a string of important acoustic/folk albums, and concerts with Joan Baez, he launched into an entirely new format of electric and acoustic with 1965's "Bringing It All Back Home" which, together with The Byrds' cover of his "Mr Tambourine Man," launched folk-rock. The documentary Bob Dylan: Never Look back (1967) was made. He broke up with his love affair with Joan Baez and was already married to Sara Dylan (born Sara Lowndes) in the final days of. Nearly killed in a motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966, Dylan resigned for a time of introspection. Then he returned to the hard rock scene and performed more.