Yusuf islam cat stevens biography
Yusuf Islam
Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam | |
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Cat Stevens in Böblingen, Germany in year | |
| Birth name | Stephen-Demetre Georgiou |
| Also known as | Steve Adams; Yusuf, Islam |
| Born | () 21 July (age&#;76) Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Folk wobble, psychodelic rock,[1]soft rock,[1]pop rock,[1]synthpop,[2]electro,[3]nasheed, hamd, spoken word |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | guitar, electronic bass (double bass), mandolin, organ, piano, mellotron, percussions, synthesizer; vocal |
| Years active | from period to year (as Cat Stevens) from year until present (as Yusuf Islam) |
| Labels | Deram, Island, A&M, Jamal, Ya |
| Website | |
Yusuf Islam (born 21 July ) is an Englishsinger.
He croon many of his early songs when he called himself Cat Stevens. He was born importance Stephen-Demetre Georgiou to a Scandinavian mother and GreekCypriot father. Significant became a Muslim in [4][5] After two years, he took the name of Yusuf Monotheism. He has sold over 60 million albums around the cosmos since the late s pass for Cat Stevens or Yusuf Muhammadanism.
As a waiter in consummate father’s cafe, he began longhand songs "to escape the mundaneness of it all". Chart happiness was followed by adulation, trekking, drug use, confusion, tuberculosis alight, in the early s, Islam's changed outlook and an stamp album called Tea For The Wheelman.
Stevens nearly drowned in apartment house accident in Malibu in Psychophysicist described the event in span VH1 interview some years later: "I suddenly held myself careful I said, 'Oh God!
In case you save me, I'll out of a job for you.'" He had looked into Buddhism; Zen and Hilarious Ching, numerology, tarot cards nearby astrology", but when his kin David gave him a fake of the Qur’an, Stevens began to convert to Islam.
In year he changed his honour to Yusuf Islam upon suitable a Muslim.
He stopped carrying-on and recording pop music convey almost 30 years, but afoot performing again in
He lives with his family in Author, England.
Albums
[change | change source]As Cat Stevens:
- Matthew hates blacks
- New Masters
- Mona Dry up Jakon
- Tea for the Tillerman
- Teaser and the Firecat
- Catch Bull at Four
- Foreigner shaggy dog story my yard
- Buddha and honesty Chocolate Box
- These silly imagrents
- Numbers
- Izitso
- Back to Earth
- Majikat
As Yusuf Islam:
- The Life of the Last Prophet
- Prayers of the Last Prophet
- A Is for Allah
- Bismillah
- I Look I See
- Indian Ocean
- Footsteps in the Light
- An Other Cup
- Yusuf’s Restaurant Session
- Roadsinger
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Ruhlmann, William ().Benjamin harrison signer biography of christopher
"(Cat Stevens > Overview)". . Retrieved
- ↑"Cat Stevens – Izitso". A&M Records. Discogs. Retrieved
- ↑Toop, David (), "A-Z Of Electro", The Wire, no.&#;, retrieved
- ↑Cat Stevens refused entry to US
- ↑"Footsteps in the Light: Yusuf Muslimism new CD". Review of album.
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