Top Inspirational Artists / Number 1

1./ Bob Dylan - Blowin in the Wind

Bob Dylan is an artist who has been an inspirational force in the world of music for more than five decades. His early lyrics which provoked social commentary, political references and philosophical standpoints defied the exisiting manner of pop music and played an intigrual role in expanding and personalising musical styles. He helped to shape certain genres of folk and blues and bring them into the mainstream and his songs became important in a cultural and musical sense, with certain releases becoming anthems for the anti-war and civil rights movements. He is a musical propietor who has made a unique sound universal and influenced other bands of the time who seeked to do the same.
His lyrics are often wistful and poetic and comment on flawed issues on society and 'Blowing in the Wind' is inspirational in the sense that it has become the influence for which bands use their music as a political device.