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Musician Yoriyos: So, Mr. Islam has a new album out&#;
Not the musician you were expecting |
Before famed musician and Muslim activist Yusuf Islam released his long anticipated and well received new album An Other Cup this week, he remarked how he was inspired to pick up the guitar again four years ago after his then year old son, Muhammad Islam, left his where he could see it. Since then, Yusuf has made his full transition from a tentative post-9/11 live performance of Peace Train at a benefit concert, to the full musical embrace (Cat Stevens-era collaborators included) we see today.
While all the attention has (deservedly) been on Yusuf’s resurgent career, what ever became of the son (and his guitar) that brought him back to music? The Islam brood (he has five children) has generally been afforded a degree of privacy, presumably attending their father’s groundbreaking Islamic primary schools and following his spiritual and activist path.
However, in the four yea
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Cat Stevens
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| Birth name | Steven Demetre Georgiou |
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| Born | () 21 July (age&#;76) London, England |
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| Spouse | Fauzia Mubarak Ali |
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Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July ),[1] commonly known bygd his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / katt Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than million records and has more than two billion streams.[2] His musical style consists of 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 retu