Yusuf Islam, commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, in his later career, Islamic music, before returning to secular music in 2006.

Yusuf Islam, commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, in his later career, Islamic music, before returning to secular music in 2006.

凯特·斯蒂文斯是英国民谣摇滚的代表人物，1947年7月21日生于伦敦，原名史蒂文·乔治乌（Steven Georgiou）。当他成为一名国际明星之后，于1979年皈依宗教并放弃了他的音乐事业。60年代中期，斯蒂文斯在哈默史密斯大学期间就开始自己创作歌曲并于1966年以一首《我喜欢我的狗》（I Love My Dog）走红。1968年，斯蒂文斯感染了肺结核，这迫使他暂时停止了音乐生涯。1970年，他以专辑《Mona Bone Jakon》重返乐坛，并受到一致好评，其中还产生了一首热门歌曲《德，阿班维尔太太》（Lady D'Arbanville）。以后，他继续推出专辑《舵手的茶叶》（Tea of the Tillerman，1971）、《数字》（Numbers，1975），《Izitso》（1977）和《回到地球》（Back to Earth，1978）均获得一定的成绩。
七十年代, 出现过一期Singer-songwriter movement, 出现过的名字有John Denver, James Tayler, Jackson Browne及Cat Stevens, 他们的歌曲很温馨舒情, 一派校园民歌气息. Cat Stevens的Morning has broken, Wild World, The first cut is the deepest等, 全部词入心, 曲入耳. 难得此碟十分慷慨, 好歌一一收录还加有一首Perviously unreleased的I ve Got A Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old。
曾经的英国民谣强人，现在已经不用这个名字，也不唱歌了，但他的唱作人生涯其实是很成功的，据说他全部唱片的总销量达到了6000万张，相当骄人。出这张Tea for the Tillerman的时候，他的前妻跟人跑了，那首Hard Headed Woman就是说这个事的。不过，专辑整体上却并未沦为一张吐苦水的专辑，只是在保留他一贯风格的同时稍微融入了一点罕见的热烈而已，里面的歌都不错

One of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time releases his latest studio album, The Laughing Apple. The Laughing Apple features original songs and covers, though the covers on this album are Yusufs own. He celebrates some of his earliest material, with new presentations of the songs. Conceptually, The Laughing Apple returns to the journey of the Tillerman, as he recalls his travels and life lessons to a younger generation. The album's cover features Yusufs own illustration, the first time he has designed one of his covers since 1972. Yusuf has drawn additional works of art for each of the 11 songs on The Laughing Apple.

Tell 'Em I'm Gone is the first new Yusuf album to be released since 2009 s acclaimed Roadsinger. Recorded all over the world, including Los Angeles, Dubai, Brussels, and London, the album features 10 brand-new studio recordings, including five originals and five carefully-chosen cover songs. Tell 'Em I'm Gone features musical contributions from Richard Thompson, blues harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite, singer-songwriter Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Tuareg group Tinariwen, and guitarist Matt Sweeney. The album was produced by Yusuf, with Rick Rubin also producing select tracks.
Each track on Tell 'Em I'm Gone revives the age-old themes of freedom and peace that have prevailed through more than four decades of Yusuf's musical career. On this album, Yusuf returns to the roots of his teenage musical inspiration: American blues and R&B, using these genres to explore humanity's climb to freedom with songs that recall the spirit of his earliest days as a nascent singer-songwriter in London.
Stunning originals like "I Was Raised In Babylon" and "Cat And The Dog Trap" plus covers of American standards ("Big Boss Man," "You Are My Sunshine") and a moving version of Edgar Winter's "Dying To Live" find Yusuf as strong of voice and as engaging a performer as ever before.