His parents Stavros Georgiou and Ingrid Wickman were restaurateurs. The whole family currently lives in London // Famous AlcoholicsĬat Stevens, was born as Steven Georgiou, on Jin London. In 1979, he married Fauzia Mubarak Ali who bore him five children. He returned to music in the 1990s after properly understanding the message about music in Islamic culture and believes it is vital to preach to the world the finer aspects related to Islam. He received two honorary doctorates for the work he did in promoting peace. Stevens stopped writing and singing music for a couple of decades and devoted his life to educational and philanthropic causes for Muslim community. At the peak of his career, he had a life-altering experience and accepted Islam as his religion.
His success and recognition can be adjudged by the fact that several of his albums achieved gold-record status and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Listeners of the 1970s remember him as the soft and romantic singer whose singles always tore through the charts and were Top Ten mainstays. In his childhood he was inspired by the musicians performing at the Denmark Street, which was a centre of the British music industry. Cat Stevens is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and humanitarian.
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