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 performed strongly in the UK and Ireland, with more than forty reaching the UK Top 40, and he has also achieved significant chart success in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Morrison has earned UK Top 10 albums across four consecutive decades, including with his 2021 release Latest Record Project, Volume 1. In the United States, eighteen of his albums have reached the Top 40, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017. Since turning 70 in 2015, he has continued to release new music at a steady pace, averaging more than one album per year. His honours 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 music and to tourism in Northern Ireland. Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone in various Irish showbands that covered contemporary hits. Known to fans as “Van the Man”, he rose to prominence in the mid‑1960s as the lead singer of the Belfast R&B group Them, with whom he wrote and recorded “Gloria”, a song that became a garage‑rock standard. His solo career began under the pop‑oriented direction of producer Bert Berns, leading to the release of the 1967 hit single “Brown Eyed Girl”.
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Gloria
Baby Please Don’t Go
Here Comes The Night
It’s all over now,Baby Blue
I Put A Spell On You
I’ll be your lover too
Brown Eyed Girl
Days like this
The Healing Game
Someone Like You
Hymns to the Silence
Listen to the Lion
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