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Cat Stevens

Also known as Yusuf Islam, Yusuf, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Yusuf İslam

British musician (born 1948)

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Cat Stevens is a British singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1970s with folk and pop music. He is notable for his influential albums and hit songs from that era, and later became known for converting to Islam and changing his name to Yusuf Islam.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1948
Works: 1

Top works

Why I Still Carry a Guitar
The Great Songs Of Cat Stevens
Footsteps in the dark
A is for Allah Double CD
Prayers of the Last Prophet

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1948-07-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,465,029
Total plays: 31,276,945

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
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· 2008 · cited 10,630x
Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,983x
Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer
· 2002 · cited 8,577x

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Quotes

“It seems as if I am making a comeback but I have never really been away. It’s very strange because the whole attitude changes and everything is turned inside out. Now I am seeing the shiny side again. It has made all the difference to me because I had to have that break. -->”
“Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.”
“Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act — perhaps, yes.”
“Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.”
“If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help, I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is.”
“In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.”

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Official website: catstevens.com
Image: Yusuf-2009.jpg

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Commons category: Cat Stevens
date of birth: 1948-07-21
birth name: Steven Demetre Georgiou
start of work period: 1966-00-00
social media followers: 139627
nickname: DOG

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Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens or Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion streams. His musical career has explored folk, rock, pop, and, later in his career, Islamic music. Following two decades in which he performed only music which met strict religious standards, he returned to making secular music in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace as well as other humanitarian awards.

His 1967 debut album and its title song "Matthew and Son" both reached top 10 in the UK charts. Stevens's albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four went to No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and spent weeks at the top of several other major charts. He earned ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include "Father and Son", "Wild World", "Moonshadow", "Peace Train", and "Morning Has Broken".