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Belfast, Northern Ireland (1958 – present)

George Ivan Morrison (generally known as Van Morrison) (born 31 August 1945) is a Grammy Award-winning from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He’s a singer, songwriter, author, poet, and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since 1958. He plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboards, drums, and saxophone. Featuring his characteristic growl - a unique mix of folk, blues, Irish, scat, and Celtic influences - Morrison is widely considered one of the most unusual and influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll.

Known as “Van the Man” by his fans, Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Northern Irish band Them, writing their 1964 hit “Gloria”. A few years later, Morrison left the band for a successful solo career, starting with the album Astral Weeks.

Morrison has pursued an idiosyncratic musical path. Much of his music is tightly structured around the conventions of American soul and R&B, such as the popular singles “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Moondance”, “Domino”, and “Wild Night”. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as his classic album Astral Weeks and lesser known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as “Celtic Soul,” and Morrison rejects the characterization of his genre of music as Rock, citing Elvis Presley as a non-influence.
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  • RussellChap

    http://www.last.fm/group/Astral+Weeks A group for fans of Van's Astral Weeks...

    14 days ago
  • blutos

    Tupelo Honey is still my all time though. And Hard Nose has moments of pure fucking genius that seems to get overlooked

    21 days ago
  • satanistrue2you

    Wants to rock your gypsy soul.....

    last month
  • Irryco

    Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece are my favorites. Both are nothing short of master pieces. Though, he's got so many awesome albums. Moondance is great, indeed. : )

    March 2012
  • poptartsx

    boyfriend introduced me (besides listening to brown eyed girl and a few others before). moondance is my favorite album right now but i am exploring more!

    March 2012
  • ImmortalAthon

    He's got a lot of other great records too but damnit if Astral Weeks isn't that 'one of a kind' record every artist wishes to achieve in their lives

    March 2012
  • ImmortalAthon

    Astral Weeks is the only album I can listen 6-7 times in a row. [2]

    March 2012
  • nitty_look

    I totally love "Someone like you" and "Tupelo honey" ♥♥♥

    March 2012
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