Legacy of Van Morrison
Artists and genres Van Morrison directly influenced — one hop forward on the family tree of music.
Counting Crowsartist
Bridgit Mendlerartist
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Marcy PlaygroundartistMarcy Playground is an American alternative rock band consisting of three members: John Wozniak, Dylan Keefe (bass), and Shlomi Lavie (drums). The band is best known for their 1997 hit "Sex and Candy", which spent close to four months as No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Fortunate YouthartistFortunate Youth is an American reggae rock sextet from Hermosa Beach, California.
- Glen Hansardartist
Glen James Hansard is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician. Since 1990, he has been the frontman of the Irish rock band the Frames, with whom he has released six studio albums, four of which have charted in the top ten of the Irish Album Charts. He is one half of folk rock duo the Swell Season before releasing his debut solo album, Rhythm and Repose, in 2012. His 2015 second album Didn't He Ramble was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
El Chicanoartist
Al StewartartistAlastair Ian Stewart is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a style of combining folk-rock songs with tales of characters and events from history.
The WaterboysartistThe Waterboys are a rock band formed in 1983 in London by Scottish musician and songwriter Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Britain and Ireland, with Scott being the only constant member. Over a four-decade career, the band has drawn on multiple styles of music including punk rock, rock and roll, folk music, Celtic soul, noise rock, country music, rhythm & blues and chamber music.
Huey Lewis & The NewsartistHuey Lewis and the News are an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually achieving 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts. Their sound draws upon earlier pop, rhythm & blues and doo-wop artists, and their own material has been labeled as blue-eyed soul, new wave, power pop, and roots rock.
Common KingsartistCommon Kings is an American, Hawaiian, and Samoan reggae rock/pop band from Orange County, California. The band's debut album, Lost in Paradise, was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Eddie MoneyartistEdward Joseph Money was an American singer and songwriter who had his greatest commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s. Money had eleven Top 40 singles, starting with "Baby Hold On" in 1977 and including the Billboard Top 10 hits "Take Me Home Tonight" (1986) and "Walk on Water" (1988). Critic Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called him a working-class rocker. In 1987, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight".
Anders OsborneartistAnders Osborne is an American singer-songwriter. He tours solo and with a band, and often plays in North Mississippi Osborne (N.M.O), a group formed by Osborne and North Mississippi Allstars.
Sons of the Eastartist
Orla GartlandartistOrla Joan Gartland is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician. Gartland released her debut studio album, Woman on the Internet, in 2021, which reached number 3 on the Irish album chart, number 1 on the UK Indie Chart, and number 10 on the UK Albums Chart. Her second studio album Everybody Needs a Hero came out in October 2024.
Jonathan WilsonartistJonathan Spencer Wilson is an American producer, songwriter and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He is a frequent collaborator of Father John Misty. They co-produced Father John Misty's Grammy-nominated "Chloe and the Next 20th Century."
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Nick WaterhouseartistNick Ryan Waterhouse is an American singer-songwriter and Grammy award-winning record producer from Los Angeles. He is a guitarist and singer known for a sound rooted in Jazz, Rhythm and blues, and Soul.
Freddie ScottartistFreddie Scott was an American soul singer and songwriter. His biggest hits were "Hey, Girl", a top ten US pop hit in 1963, and "Are You Lonely for Me", a No. 1 hit on the R&B chart in early 1967.
Elvis Costello & The AttractionsartistDeclan Patrick MacManus, known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author, and television host. According to Rolling Stone, Costello "reinvigorated the literate, lyrical traditions of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison with the raw energy and sass that were principal ethics of punk", noting the "construction of his songs, which set densely layered wordplay in an ever-expanding repertoire of styles". He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Grammy Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016.
LuvcatartistSophie Morgan Howarth, also known as Luvcat, is an English singer-songwriter. After gaining initial prominence as an acoustic artist under the name Sophie Morgan through three EPs, she formed Luvcat in 2023. Luvcat's debut album Vicious Delicious was released on 31 October 2025.
Fred Wesleyartist
The James Hunter SixartistJames Hunter is a British R&B musician and soul singer.
Pete Wingfieldartist