Who is Van Morrison?
Van Morrison is a popular singer from Ireland who has been making music since the 1960s. He first started performing with the band “Them,” and then went on to an extremely successful solo career. Over the years, Van Morrison has released an eclectic range of albums, with elements of rock, jazz, blues, country, and other musical forms. During his childhood in Belfast, Ireland, Van Morrison became fixated on music. His father bought him a guitar at age twelve, and he formed a band with some of his friends from school. As a teenager, Van Morrison also learned to play saxophone. He first gained commercial success as the singer for Them, which broke up after two years. In 1967, Van Morrison released his first solo album. A single from that album, “Brown-Eyed Girl,” was a top ten hit, and is still played frequently on classic rock radio stations. The next year, Van Morrison released the album Astral Weeks, a sprawling, improvisational, mystic-themed record that is today hailed as one of the
