Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Psychedelic, Soft Rock, Folk-Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock, AM Pop Active: 60's, 70's, 2000's Born: July 21, 1948 in London, England
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Cat Stevens, born Steven Demetre Georgiou, was the son of a Swedish mother and a Greek father who ran a restaurant in London. He became interested in folk music and rock & roll in his teens while attending Hammersmith College and in 1965 began performing under the name Steve Adams. Mike Hurst, a former member of the folk-pop group the Springfields, who had become a record producer, heard him and took him into a recording studio to cut his composition "I Love My Dog." This demo caused Decca Records to sign him under the name Cat Stevens and assign him to its newly formed Deram subsidiary. "I Love My Dog" reached the British charts in October 1966, peaking in the Top 40. Stevens' next single, "Matthew & Son," entered the charts in January 1967 and just missed getting to number one (in America, it grazed the bottom of the charts).
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Release: 2010
Label: Starbucks
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Release: May 5, 2009
Label: YA/Yusuf/Universal, Hip-O, Island
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