Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison
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Born in Belfast to a working-class Protestant family, he absorbed a wide range of blues, gospel and jazz from his father’s extensive record collection and began playing guitar, saxophone and keyboards in teenage skiffle groups before joining the Belfast R&B band Them, where his composition “Gloria” became a garage-rock staple. Launching a solo career with the 1967 hit “Brown Eyed Girl,” he recorde…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources