American singer-songwriter born Robert Allen Zimmerman (3,5)

I believe the answer is:

bob dylan

(Other definitions for bob dylan that I've seen before include "US protest singer/songwriter" , "Songwriter, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature" , "US singer/songwriter is nobly bad, curiously" , "Singer-songwriter, born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941" , "Singer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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