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The legendary musician was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941. Raised in a close-knit Jewish community in the town of Hibbing, he had a Bar Mitzvah before moving to New York and reinventing himself as the foremost voice of the 1960s folk revival. His early life and explosive rise to fame as a songwriter and cultural icon perfectly match the first parts of the description.
In the late 1970s, Dylan stunned many of his followers by embracing born-again Christianity. This deeply personal conversion became a very public artistic statement, resulting in a trilogy of gospel albums: the Grammy-winning *Slow Train Coming* (1979), *Saved* (1980), and *Shot of