Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE, known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards.
Van Morrison wife
Facing deportation due to visa problems, he managed to stay in the US when his American girlfriend Janet (Planet) Rigsbee, who had a son named Peter from a previous relationship, agreed to marry him but they later divorced in 1973.
Morrison met Irish socialite Michelle Rocca in the summer of 1992 and later married. However, they divorced in 2018.
Van Morrison children
Van Morrison has four children in all his relationships in and outside his two marriages. He had one child with his first wife Janet Rigsbee. Shana Morrison was born in 1970, she is now a singer-songwriter in her own right.
Morrison also has two children with his second wife Michelle Rocca: Aibbe (born 2006) and Fionn Ivan Patrick (born 2007).
In December 2009, Morrison’s tour manager Gigi Lee gave birth to a son, and she insisted that Morrison was the father. Lee announced the birth of the child on Morrison’s official website, but Morrison denied paternity. Lee’s son died in January 2011 from diabetes, and Lee died soon after from throat cancer.
Van Morrison parents
George Ivan Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hyndford Street, Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was born to George Morrison and Violet Stitt Morrisson. His father was a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, who had been a singer and tap dancer in her youth
Van Morrison siblings
Van had no other siblings from either parent he was the only child they had.
