His father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Northern Ireland (acquired during his time in Detroit, Michigan, in the early 1950s) and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Solomon Burke of whom he later said, "If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.
From 1950 to 1956, Morrison, who began to be known as "Van" during this time, attended Elmgrove Primary School. Morrison's family were working class Protestants descended from the Ulster Scots population that settled in Belfast. The previous occupant of the house was the writer Lee Child's father. George Ivan Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hyndford Street, Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, who had been a singer and tap dancer in her youth. Life and career Early life and musical roots: 1945–1964 1.11 Latest Record Project, Volume 1: 2021.1.9 Born to Sing to Three Chords: 2010–2020.1.8 Down the Road to Keep It Simple: 2000–2009.1.7 The Best of Van Morrison to Back on Top: 1990–1999.1.6 Common One to Avalon Sunset: 1980–1989.1.5 Moondance to Into the Music: 1970–1979.1.3 Start of solo career with Bang Records and "Brown Eyed Girl": 1967.1.1 Early life and musical roots: 1945–1964.
In 2016, he was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland. He has received two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the United States, twelve of them between 19. With the release of Latest Record Project, Volume 1 he scored top ten albums in the UK in four consecutive decades. Morrison's albums have performed well in Ireland and the UK, with more than 40 reaching the UK top 40.
His live performances have been described as "transcendental" and "inspired", and his music as attaining "a kind of violent transcendence". The two strains together are sometimes referred to as "Celtic soul". An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as the album Astral Weeks. Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and R&B.
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Moondance (1970) established Morrison as a major artist, and he built on his reputation throughout the 1970s with a series of acclaimed albums and live performances. While initially a poor seller, the album has become regarded as a classic. Records bought out Morrison's contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). Under the pop-oriented guidance of Bert Berns, Morrison's solo career began in 1967 with the release of the hit single " Brown Eyed Girl". With Them, he recorded the garage band classic " Gloria". Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid 1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band Them. Īs a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments such as guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for several Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans six decades.
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