Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan was born Robert Allan Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota to Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, Russian Jews who soon moved, when Bob was five about seventy miles north to the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota. As a boy, Zimmerman aspired to attend West Point on his way to a military career.
Destiny, however, intervened as Zimmerman's interest turned to music. When Zimmerman's parents moved to their house in Hibbing, however, Zimmerman heard a country record left on the turntable that made him feel like he was "someone else." The record, he said, connected him to the timeless traditions of traditional music, rather than the faceless pop songs - such as "How Much is That Doggy in the Window?" - representative of the time.
Zimmerman's fire was further kindled by the serendipitous act of spinning the radio dial later in his room, trying to find something different common on the Iron Range radio dial. Zimmerman stumbled on an R&B and blues station from Little Rock, Arkansas that further connected him to the truth of the blues lyrics it played.
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