Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens
Yusuf performing at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Cardiff, April 2015
Background information
Birth name	Steven Demetre Georgiou
Also known as	Steve Adams
Born	(1948-07-21) 21 July 1948 (age 68) Marylebone, London, England
Genres	Folk pop rock Islamic
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter musician
Instruments	Vocals guitar bass guitar mandolin organ piano Mellotron double bass
Years active	1965–80 (as Cat Stevens) 1995–present (as Yusuf Islam or Yusuf)
Labels	Deram Island A&M Mountain of Light Jamal Ya Atlantic Records Legacy Recordings
Associated acts	Alun Davies
Website	yusufislam.com
Notable instruments
Ovation acoustic guitars Baldwin piano Epiphone Casino Rhodes piano Fender Telecaster Gibson Everly Brothers Flattop Gibson ES-335 Gibson J-200

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, and education philanthropist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album's title song "Matthew and Son" charted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. His albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were both certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and Islamic music.

His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and fifteen weeks at number one in the Australian ARIA Charts. He earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", and the song has been a hit for four different artists. His other hit songs include "Father and Son", "Wild World", "Peace Train", "Moonshadow", and "Morning Has Broken". In 2007 he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection.