Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years.
Bob Dylan wife
Bob Dylan first married Sara Lownds, a model and a secretary, in November 1965. The couple eventually divorced in June 1977.
He then married his backup singer Carolyn Dennis in June 1986, but divorced in October 1992. Their marriage and child remained a secret until the publication of Howard Sounes’s biography Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, in 2001.
Bob Dylan children
With first wife Sara, Bob Dylan had four children together: Jesse Byron Dylan (born 1966), Anna Lea (born 1967), Samuel Isaac Abram (born 1968), and Jakob Luke (born 1969). He also adopted Sara’s daughter from a previous marriage, Maria Lownds (later Dylan, born 1961).
Bob Dylan parents
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St. Mary’s Hospital on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota,and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior.
Dylan’s father Abram Zimmerman and his mother Beatrice “Beatty” Stone were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community.They lived in Duluth until Dylan was six, when his father contracted polio and the family returned to his mother’s hometown, Hibbing, where they lived for the rest of Dylan’s childhood, and his father and paternal uncles ran a furniture and appliance store.
Bob Dylan siblings
David Benjamin Zimmerman, Bob Dylan’s younger brother, was born in February 1946 in Duluth, Minnesota, two years before the family moved to Hibbing.
