Bob Dylan

In  2016 Bob Dylan   awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature

fragments of biography

His real name is Robert Zimmerman
In the early ‘60s Dylan briefly attended University of Minnesota. At this time, he hung out frequently in an area known as Dinkytown. This is where he first performed as a solo artist and first used the name Bob Dylan.
Dylan’s first professional recording was as a harmonica player at a Harry Belafonte album in 1960. He was paid 50 dollars for his work.
His first wife and mother of four of his children, Sara Lownds, worked as a Playboy bunny.

When Dylan performed for Pope John Paul II in 1997, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the current Pope Benedict), tried to stop Dylan from playing, because, according to him, he was the wrong kind of “prophet”

In 2008, he became the first Rock musician ever awarded a Pulitzer Prize. He was given the special award for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”
In 2016 Bob Dylan awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."