Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison, OBE[1] (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. A few of his recordings, such because the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the dwell album It’s Too Late to Cease Now, are critically acclaimed.
He has acquired six Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Excellent Contribution to Music, and has been inducted into each the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and the Songwriters Corridor of Fame. In 2015 he was knighted for his providers to standard music.
Referred to as “Van the Man” to his followers, Morrison began his skilled profession when, as an adolescent within the late Nineteen Fifties, he performed quite a lot of devices together with guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for varied Irish showbands overlaying the favored hits of the day. He rose to prominence within the mid-Sixties because the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the storage band basic “Gloria”.
His solo profession started beneath the pop-hit oriented steerage of Bert Berns with the discharge of the hit single “Brown Eyed Woman” in 1967. After Berns’ demise, Warner Bros. Data purchased out his contract and allowed him three classes to file Astral Weeks in 1968. Regardless that this album would progressively garner excessive reward, it was initially a poor vendor; nevertheless, the following one, Moondance, established Morrison as a serious artist, and all through the Seventies he constructed on his fame with a sequence of critically acclaimed albums and dwell performances.
Morrison continues to file and tour, producing albums and dwell performances that promote effectively and are usually warmly acquired, generally collaborating with different artists, similar to Georgie Fame and the Chieftains. In 2008 he carried out Astral Weeks dwell for the primary time since 1968.
A lot of Morrison’s music is structured across the conventions of soul music and R&B, similar to the favored singles “Brown Eyed Woman”, “Jackie Wilson Mentioned (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)”, “Domino” and “Wild Night time”. An equal a part of his catalogue consists of prolonged, loosely related, spiritually impressed musical journeys that present the affect of Celtic custom, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, similar to Astral Weeks and lesser-known works similar to Veedon Fleece and Widespread One. The 2 strains collectively are generally known as “Celtic Soul”.
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