Bob Dylan Net Worth?
Bob Dylan is an American singer, musician, artist and writer. Bob Dylan known as Robert Allen Zimmerman has an estimated net worth of about $500 million. About half of his most famous songs were in the ‘60s but samples of his creations have been in five decades.
He has been touring regularly on what was dubbed the Never-Ending Tour since the late 1980s. He is arguably one of the greatest and most productive songwriters on the face of the earth. He was still bubbling with ideas and to date, more than 6,000 popular artists have sung his songs.
In most cases, the cover version generated even higher popularity than Dylan’s version. In recent years, he was earning approximately $15 million per year of income from his song catalog royalty stream.
Early Life
Bob Dylan was born on May 24th 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. His parents brought him up in a very Jewish neighborhood until the age of six then his mother decided to relocate them to her hometown of Hibbing in Minnesota.
It was a student of Hibbing High School, he formed several bands was a student of Hibbing High School. In 1959 he coaxed himself into University of Minnesota and took initiation into fraternity of Sigma Alpha Mu.
It was when he was in college that he first became a performer for the Ten O’clock Scholar, which is a coffee house near his college, and where he also engaged himself in folk music as a performer. In 1961, after leaving college at the end of his first year, Dylan arrived in New York to perform.
Through these shows and contacts, he got his chance to play the harmonica on Carolyn Hester’s third album. This made John Hammond, the producer of that album, to hire Dylan in Columbia Records.
Career
Bob Dylan’s first album was self-titled and was released in March in 1962. Buyers took little notice of it, and only 5,000 copies were sold in the initial year of its launch. However, Hammond never stopped influencing Dylan and songwriter Johnny Cash who also kept supporting Dylan.
Hailing from the United States, his second album “The Freewheeling Bob Dylan” recorded in 1963 provided him songs that had lyrics which deliberated on issues to do with politics and regulations and sought to endue him.
He is an accomplished singer whose songs are also full recorded music but also an influential political personality, whose voice of reason for the young Americans, similar to what he had championed through things such as the civil
His third album, “The Times They Are a-Changin’” (1964), contained politically motivated materials and was succeeded by the, albeit, even more lyrically vague “Another Side of Bob Dylan” (1964).
He is the only singer who has ever been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature because of the poems he sings. Some of the other Dylan achievements include; ten Grammy Awards, one Golden Globe Award, one Academy Award and recently the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.
