# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cat-stevens
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:18:54.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cat-stevens"
name: "Cat Stevens"
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description: "He wrote \"Wild World\" and \"Father and Son,\" sold over 100 million records, then walked away at the height of fame in the late 1970s after converting to Islam — auctioning his guitars and going silent for nearly three decades."
tagline: "British musician (born 1948)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  85
  category: 203
totalFollowers: 800000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948, he broke through in 1967 with "Matthew and Son" and became a defining voice of early-'70s folk-rock: Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat went triple platinum, Catch Bull at Four hit No. 1 in the US, and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" became a standard. In December 1977 he converted to Islam, took the name Yusuf Islam, released one last album in 1979, then left music entirely to work in education and charity. A 1989 controversy over comments about the Salman Rushdie fatwa shadowed him for years; he later said he'd been framed by loaded questions. He returned to pop in 2006 with An Other Cup, began touring again in 2014, and by 2017 had reclaimed the Cat Stevens name, releasing new work and re-recording old classics while racking up over two billion streams.