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Bob Dylan to receive 'MusiCares person of the year' at pre-Grammys event

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Last Updated : Sep 25 2014 | 12:25 PM IST

Bob Dylan will be honored with 'MusiCares person of the year' by some of the music industry's biggest names at a special pre-Grammys event in February, 2015.

Jack White, Neil Young, The Black Keys, Willie Nelson and Crosby, Stills and Nash among others will perform at the event, the BBC reported.

Neil Portnow, head of the MusiCares Foundation and The Recording Academy, said that Dylan's body of creative work had contributed to America's culture, as well as that of the entire world, in "genuinely deep and lasting ways".

Jeff Beck, Tom Jones and Norah Jones are among the stars who will perform versions of the musician's songs.

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First Published: Sep 25 2014 | 12:03 PM IST

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