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Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, ), 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.〔(RIAA – Gold and Platinum ) Recording Industry Association of America Retrieved 22 January 2011〕 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.〔(Billboard – Catch Bull at Four ) Allmusic. Retrieved 20 October 2011〕〔Kent, David (1993) (doc). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W〕 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.〔("Ivor Novello winners 2007 ). BBC News. Retrieved 3 March 2015〕 In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam, and he adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity〔 ''This story originally aired on 3 December 2006.'' He has since bought back at least one of these guitars as a result of the efforts of his son Yoriyos - see 12:50 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qtp7d〕 and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace from two organisations founded by Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2006, he returned to pop music – releasing his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, titled ''An Other Cup''. With that release and for subsequent ones, he dropped the surname "Islam" from the album cover art – using the stage name "Yusuf" as a mononym.〔 In 2009, he released the album ''Roadsinger'', and in 2014, he released the album ''Tell 'Em I'm Gone'', and began his first US tour since 1978. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.〔("A Guide To The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014" ). Time. Retrieved 18 December 2013〕 ==Early life (1948–65)== Steven Georgiou, born on 21 July 1948 in the Marylebone area of London,〔 was the third child of a Greek Cypriot father, Stavros Georgiou (b. 1900), and a Swedish mother, Ingrid Wickman (b. 1915). He had an older sister, Anita, and a brother, David. The family lived above the Moulin Rouge, a restaurant that his parents operated on the north end of Shaftesbury Avenue which was a short walk from Piccadilly Circus in the Soho theatre district of London. All family members worked in the restaurant.〔 His parents divorced when he was about eight years old, but they continued to maintain the family restaurant and live above it. Although his father was Greek Orthodox and his mother a Swedish Baptist, Georgiou was sent to St. Joseph Roman Catholic Primary School, Macklin Street, which was closer to his father's business on Drury Lane. Georgiou developed an interest in piano at a fairly young age, eventually using the family baby grand piano to work out the chords, since no one else there played well enough to teach him.〔 Inspired by the popularity of the Beatles, at 15 he extended his interest to the guitar,〔 persuaded his father to pay £8 for his first instrument, and began playing it and writing songs. He would escape at times from his family responsibilities to the rooftop above their home, and listen to the tunes of the musicals drifting from just around the corner〔 from Denmark Street, which was then the centre of the British music industry.〔 Stevens emphasised that the advent of ''West Side Story'' in particular affected him, giving him a "different view of life". With interests in both art and music, he and his mother moved to Gävle, Sweden, where he attended primary school (Solängsskolan) and started developing his drawing skills after being influenced by his uncle Hugo Wickman, a painter. They subsequently returned to England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From kitten to cat )〕 He attended other local West End schools, where he says he was constantly in trouble, and did poorly in everything but art. He was called "the artist boy" and mentions that "I was beat up, but I was noticed". He went on to take a one-year course of study at Hammersmith School of Art, as he considered a career as a cartoonist. Though he enjoyed art (his later record albums would feature his original artwork on his album covers),〔 he wanted to establish a musical career and began to perform originally under the stage name "Steve Adams" in 1965 while at Hammersmith.〔 At that point, his goal was to become a songwriter. As well as the Beatles, other musicians who influenced him were the Kinks,〔("Artist Influences for Cat Stevens" ). MTV; retrieved 3 February 2014.〕 Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, blues artists Lead Belly and Muddy Waters, Biff Rose (particularly Rose's first album), Leo Kottke,〔 and Paul Simon. He also wanted to emulate composers who wrote musicals, like Ira Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. In 1965 he signed a publishing deal with Ardmore & Beechwood and recorded several demos, including "The First Cut Is the Deepest". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cat Stevens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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