Van Morrison
Ireland
Born: 31 August 1945
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock, R&B, Country, Folk, Jazz
Styles: Soul, R&B/Soul, Singer/Songwriter, Folk/Country Rock, Folk-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Folk-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Psychedelic, Psychedelic/Garage, Blue-Eyed Soul, Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Soft Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Celtic Rock, Celtic/British Isles, AM Pop, Early Pop/Rock
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Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. Subject only to the whims of his own muse, his recordings cover extraordinary stylistic ground yet retain a consistency and purity virtually unmatched among his contemporaries, connected by the mythic power of his singular musical vision a...
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