Robert Zimmerman, probably the name doesn´t say anything to you but what if I say Bob Dylan?

Since he was a teenager, he wrote beautiful songs and performed them in local coffee houses. After his season in Greenish Village, in New York, he began to gain reputation and soon he started to create unforgettable and emblematic songs that defended civil rights and anti-war movements like Blowing in the Wind and The Times are Changing, becoming in this way the voice of a generation.

It was not until 1965 however, that he reinvented himself musically shifting from acoustic music to electric one, not being afraid of the consequences that this change could provoke on his fans; just simply he got a new audience. He had no precedent on lyric writing and in the mid 60’s the reached his creative peak.

In 1980 his popularity declined after commercial disappointments but he teamed with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jimmy Hendrix and Roy Orbison creating the band The Traveling Wilburys.

Modern Times became  singer-songwriters' first #1 album in the USA since 1976's Desire. At age 65, Dylan became the oldest living person at the time to have an album enter the Billboard charts at number 1.

Today is Dylan's 71st birthday, let's congratulate him  for all these years of good music.