What Ever Happened To Cat Stevens

Cat stevens in his own words one of the most successful singersongwriters of the first half of the seventies cat stevens converted to islam in the latter part of the decade after a near drowning and changed his name to yusef islam.

What ever happened to cat stevens. What ever happened to cat stevens. Cat stevens or yusuf islam personalities. The 18 year old georgiou began playing london coffeehouses under the name cat stevens and penning future classics like the first cut is the deepest a case of tuberculosis in 1968 nearly killed. A year later he landed a publishing deal as a songwriter and adopted the stage name cat stevens.

His statements generated criticism from commentators in the west. In december 1977 stevens converted to islam and adopted the name yusuf islam the following year. As of february 2014 singer songwriter cat stevens is still alive. In this 2000 interview he discusses his reasons for doing so and the controversy that followed.

Cat stevens a figure who for all intents and purposes had ceased to exist more than three decades ago had come back. During this period he sold the hit the first cut is the deepest to soul singer pp. Cat stevens gave himself a muslim name yusaf islam and moved to kuwait. By roy leonard april 22 2014 at 244 pm.

September 21 2004 1045 pm ap puzzled and angry at being barred from the united states the singer formerly known as cat stevens returned to london on. In 1979 he auctioned all of his guitars for charity. Why was i banned from us. Following ayatollah khomeini s 14 february 1989 death fatwa against author salman rushdie after the publication of rushdies novel the satanic verses yusuf islam previously known as cat stevens made statements that were interpreted as endorsing the killing of rushdie.

Yusuf married in 1979 to a woman who had never heard of cat stevens and was an elvis fan. Universally derided in 1989 when he allegedly went on record supporting the ayatollah khomeini s death sentence against the satanic verses author salman rushdie. For a long time it. He did get back.