Claim: Bob Dylan is an American recording artist.
Evidence: Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival , his six-minute single `` Like a Rolling Stone '' , recorded in 1965 , enlarged the range of popular music.
Bob Dylan -LRB- -LSB- ˈdɪlən -RSB- born Robert Allen Zimmerman ; May 24 , 1941 -RRB- is an American poetic songwriter , singer , painter , writer , and Nobel prize laureate.