Sunday, January 2, 2011

Painting Called Red Dress

Bob Dylan - "Knockin 'On Heaven's Door"




Bob Dylan. "Born in Duluth, Minnesota, United States May 24 1941.Nacido as Robert Allen Zimmerman, is a musician, singer and poet. Has been for five decades, a major figure in popular music, being considered one of the most influential composers and musicians and prolific of the twentieth century. "

Many of the most famous works date from the early Dylan 1960, which became an informal chronicler of American unrest. Some of his songs like "Blowin 'in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems of the antiwar and civil rights movements of the time. [3] One of the last studio albums Dylan, Modern Times, published in 2006, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 and was named Album of the Year by music magazine Rolling Stone.


The first letters of Dylan addressing social and philosophical issues and betray a strong literary influence, challenging the existing conventional pop music and generally appealing to the counterculture of that time. While expanding and personalized musical styles, showed a steadfast devotion to many traditions of American music, from folk, country, blues, gospel, rock and roll and rockabilly to English folk music, Scottish and Irish, from for jazz and swing.

Throughout his career, Dylan has been recognized and honored for his compositions, performances and recordings. His albums have won several Grammys, Golden Globes and Oscars, and his name is in the Hall of Fame Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Composers. In January 1990, received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Jack Lang. In 1999 he was included in the list of the hundred most influential people of the twentieth century compiled by Time magazine. In 2000, he won the Polar Music Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2004 was the second in the list of the 100 greatest artists of all time compiled by Rolling Stone magazine, after The Beatles. [On June 13, 2007 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, and in 2008 received an honorary recognition of the Pulitzer Prize for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of their extraordinary poetic power. " In this context, since 1996 various authors and scholars have nominated Dylan nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature. "

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