Cat Stevens

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Cat Stevens (born Stephanos Demetre Georgiou on 21st July 1948, and now named Yusuf Islam) is best known for his work as a popular British singer-songwriter, although born and raised by a Cypriot father and a Swedish mother. At the outset of his musical career, Georgiou adopted the stage name “Cat Stevens”, under which name he sold forty million albums, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.

Stevens became a convert to Islam in 1978 after a near-death experience. He adopted the name Yusuf Islam and became an outspoken advocate for the religion. Following his conversion, Yusuf abandoned his previous career as a pop star, with which he had always been uncomfortable. Song and the use of musical instruments is an area of debate in Islamic jurisprudence (law) and is the primary factor Cat Stevens retreated from the pop spotlight. At one point he wrote to the record companies asking that his music no longer be distributed, but his request was denied.

He released a series of low-profile spoken word albums throughout the next few decades, but only truly returned to the pop arena in 2005 with the new song “Indian Ocean”, as well as a number of notable benefit performances. In November 2006, he released his first pop album in 28 years, entitled “An Other Cup”, filled with music quite reminscent of his 1970s sounds, though with a more obvious spirituality.

1	Wild World full track	2,848
2	Father and Son full track	1,799
3	Morning Has Broken full track	1,541
4	Peace Train full track	1,311
5	Moonshadow full track	1,235
6	The Wind full track	1,182
7	The First Cut Is The Deepest full track	885
8	Here Comes My Baby full track	868
9	Hard Headed Woman full track	851
10	Sad Lisa full track	842
11	Oh Very Young full track	824
12	Lady d'Arbanville full track	761
13	Where Do the Children Play? full track	688
14	Another Saturday Night full track	600
15	Can't Keep It In full track	586

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majo334 wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

if you want to sing out, sing out

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quadophile wrote:
Wednesday morning

All you fans of Cat Steven's! Get the DVD Majikat and you can see the artist in full glory. He was so passionate then about his work and it shows in the video.

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Bahadirhan wrote:
Monday afternoon

Peace be with you, brother..

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pussypool wrote:
7 days ago

oh my love !! ♥ i wanna be your lady d'Arbanville ! ^_^ ♥

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musicluverenee wrote:
last month

hehehe love the new avatar ;p

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bloomsvintage wrote:
last month

Wanna get more this singer albums? Here you are http://justmusicstore.com/Search/?bg=/music/Cat+Stevens

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caliaa wrote:
last month

He's still one of the most beautiful artists ever. And I'm not talking about his looks I'm talking about his music.

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blacklullabies wrote:
last month

so much better than Yusuf Islam

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c-less wrote:
last month

Happy belated birthday <3

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Rauschgift wrote:
last month

Happy Birthday (:

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oridoll wrote:
last month

Have you seen Harold and Maude...great movie supported by songs of this guy...best fitting soundtrack ever

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bellota_182 wrote:
last month

Very good!!!

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Der_Tip wrote:
last month

If you want to sing out, sing out - Everytime i feel sad...This song lightens my mind :-)

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Bono_for_keeps wrote:
last month

pure bliss

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rodriguezzz wrote:
last month

ohhh.. it's great music!

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McGerkey wrote:
last month

I've been listening to the Foreigner Suite at least twice a day for the past week. It's so good. The "Heaven" part at the end is probably my favorite part of any song ever.

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margybee wrote:
last month

what a gift for melody!

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glassbottle wrote:
last month

slowly

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McGerkey wrote:
last month

In that case you should probably kill yourself.

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rigoisphat wrote:
last month

man i hate this guy

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