Bob Dylan

A defining voice of 20th-century music, Bob Dylan reshaped popular songwriting with poetic lyrics and restless reinvention. Emerging from the early-1960s folk scene, he fused protest and poetry with electric rock on albums like Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. His influence spans generations of musicians, earning him honors from Grammys to the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”