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Van Morrison
12+ albums
singer-songwriterclassic rockfolkbluesrock
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Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career began in the 1960s. His albums have achieved commercial success in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally in countries including Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Morrison has scored top ten albums in the UK across four consecutive decades, most recently with "Latest Record Project, Volume 1" (2021). Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the United States, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017. Since turning 70 in 2015, he has released over one album per year on average. His awards include two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting, and inductions into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was knighted in 2016 for services to the music industry and tourism in Northern Ireland. Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing guitar, harmonica, keyboards, and saxophone with various Irish showbands, covering popular hits of the era. Known to fans as "Van the Man", he gained prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Belfast R&B band Them, with whom he co-wrote and recorded "Gloria", which became a garage rock staple. His solo career began under the guidance of producer Bert Berns, with the release of the hit single "B
