Legendary Bob Dylan to perform in Vietnam
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World-famous American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is scheduled to perform in Vietnam in April to mark the 10th death anniversary of the legendary Vietnamese composer Trinh Cong Son.
According to initial source, the 70-year-old Bob Dylan will perform at HCMC-based Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) on April 10 in front of around 10,000 music lovers in the show “Bob Dylan tribute to Trinh Cong Son”.
Son is renowned internationally for his romantic music and is widely considered one of the three most salient figures of modern (non-classical) Vietnamese music along with Pham Duy and Van Cao.
Son is also known as a talented painter.
In related news, Backstreet Boys is set to perform in HCMC-based Military Zone 7's stadium on March 24 and grace Hanoi's My Dinh national stadium two days later.
Bob Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, has been a major figure in music for five decades. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences.
Dylan onstage at the Azkena Rock Festival. June 26, 2010
As cited by Wikipedia, much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead, of social unrest.
Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
He was named among the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by the Time Magazine in 1999.
