CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

CAT STEVENS

Tutku Rüya Özmen

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

Man of many partsSinger- song writerPopstarFolk singerMuslim ActivistHighly succesful Music career

Over 25 million albums sold

1979 left music and become Yusuf İslam

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

Stephen Dimitri GeorgiouBorn in London 1947Swedish Mother & Greek

FatherEducated in Sweden1960 return to London

Hammersmith College Art School

• Writing his own music

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

Begining of his music life

Began performing guitar-based folk-pop under the name CAT STEVENSBecome a regular in local pubs

and coffeehousesAttract the attention of record

producer MIKE HURSTIn 1967 record a demo with

Hurst

CAT STEVENS

MATTHEW And SONMATTHEW And SON

debut album at 19 years old Become hit in the U.K.3 songs in Top 10

Matthew and SonI Love My DogI’m Gonna Get Me A Gun

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

Tour of Britain with Jimi Hendrix and Engelbert Humperdink2 songs sang by other artists become hit

“Here Comes My Baby” Tremeloes“The First Cut Is The Deepest” P.P.Arnold, Rod Stewart

1969 diagnosed with tuberculosisChanged Stevens, record new material

Jimi Hendrix

Engelbert Humperdink

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

On The Way of Music Career1970, Mona Bona Jackon, Tea for the Mona Bona Jackon, Tea for the Tillerman, Wild World, Father and SonTillerman, Wild World, Father and SonAfter “Tea for the Tillerman”“Tea for the Tillerman” Stevens

Extravagant performeance with tiggers and magicians, dancers and back-up singers

1971, Teaser and theFirecat,Teaser and theFirecat, and (anti-war hit) Peace Train. Peace Train. 1972, Catch a Bull at Four Catch a Bull at Four 1973, The Foreigner The Foreigner

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

1973, Steven start studying Islam1974, Buddah and the Chocolate BoxBuddah and the Chocolate BoxInterest in İslam slowly eclipsing his songwriting1975, NumbersNumbers Top 10 at Britain1977, visit to Jerusalem, IzitsoIzitso (a commercial album)1978, last album, Back To EarthBack To Earth

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

İslamDecember 1977, formally converted to İslam taking the name Yusuf İslam

1980, settled in London with his wife and five children.

1979, married and retired from pop music

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

Last events in Music life1984, A&M released “Greatest Hits” Footsteps in the Dark, Footsteps in the Dark, including unreleased songs from 1971 cult movie Harold and Harold and MaudeMaude..

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

Big Announcement, Bigger Protest

1989, announcement that he support death sentence of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

American radio Station stop playing Cat StevensWNEW in NY gave away free copies of The Satanic Verses to listeners who turned in their Cat Stevens records

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

The Life of the Last ProphetThe Life of the Last Prophet

1995, The Life of the Last ProphetThe Life of the Last Prophet1st record after retirement the biography of MohammedIgnored in the West, Reached no1 in TurkeyHit for Muslim world

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

at the end of the story1997, He announced that he is working on an album of Bosnian songs and poems, including a new song about muslim children killed in the Balkan Wars

CAT STEVENS Tutku Rüya Özmen

References Official Web Site

www.rollingstone.com www.islamazon.com http://rlg.peircecentral.com/ Cat.html Launch Yahoo http://launchyahoo.com/artist