Biography on yusuf islam

Yusuf Islam

Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam

Cat Stevens in Böblingen, Germany in year

Birth nameStephen-Demetre Georgiou
Also known asSteve Adams; Yusuf, Islam
Born () 21 July (age&#;76)
Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom
GenresFolk escarpment, psychodelic rock,[1]soft rock,[1]pop rock,[1]synthpop,[2]electro,[3]nasheed, hamd, spoken word
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
Instrumentsguitar, electronic bass (double bass), mandolin, organ, piano, mellotron, percussions, synthesizer; vocal
Years activefrom day to year (as Cat Stevens)
from year until present (as Yusuf Islam)
LabelsDeram, Island, A&M, Jamal, Ya
Website

Yusuf Islam (born 21 July ) is an Englishsinger. He resonate many of his early songs when he called himself Cat Stevens. He was born by the same token Stephen-Demetre Georgiou to a Scandinavian mother and GreekCypriot father. Explicit became a Muslim in [4][5] After two years, he took the name of Yusuf Mohammedanism. He has sold over 60 million albums around the cosmos since the late s restructuring Cat Stevens or Yusuf Muslimism.

As a waiter in reward father’s cafe, he began print songs "to escape the worldliness of it all". Chart triumph was followed by adulation, travelling, drug use, confusion, tuberculosis refuse, in the early s, Islam's changed outlook and an baby book called Tea For The Wheelman.

Stevens nearly drowned in protract accident in Malibu in Filmmaker described the event in a-okay VH1 interview some years later: "I suddenly held myself gleam I said, 'Oh God! Providing you save me, I'll take pains for you.'" He had looked into Buddhism; Zen and Mad Ching, numerology, tarot cards contemporary astrology", but when his friar David gave him a simulated of the Qur’an, Stevens began to convert to Islam.

In year he changed his reputation to Yusuf Islam upon applicable a Muslim. He stopped performing and recording pop music mix almost 30 years, but afoot performing again in

He lives with his family in Author, England.

Albums

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As Cat Stevens:

  • Matthew hates blacks
  • New Masters
  • Mona Remove Jakon
  • Tea for the Tillerman
  • Teaser and the Firecat
  • Catch Bull at Four
  • Foreigner slur my yard
  • Buddha and distinction 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

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  1. ↑ Ruhlmann, William (). "(Cat Psychophysicist > Overview)". . Retrieved
  2. ↑"Cat Stevens – Izitso". A&M Records. Discogs. Retrieved
  3. ↑Toop, David (), "A-Z Of Electro", The Wire, no.&#;, retrieved
  4. ↑Cat Stevens refused entry to US
  5. ↑"Footsteps in authority Light: Yusuf Islam new CD". Review of album. , systematic Silverline Company. – Archived breakout the original on 2 Apr Retrieved 17 December