Cat Stevens

Steven Demetre Georgiou was born in London on July 21st , 1948. He is a British singer, musician and songwriter. He explained to the producer Mike Hurst: « My name is Steven but they call me Cat ». His father, Stavros, and his mother, Ingrid, ran a... More

Steven Demetre Georgiou was born in London on July 21st , 1948. He is a British singer, musician and songwriter. He explained to the producer Mike Hurst: « My name is Steven but they call me Cat ». His father, Stavros, and his mother, Ingrid, ran a restaurant and the family lived above it. Steven has a brother and a sister: David and Anita. Under the influence of his parents, he practiced music from an early age: first the piano and then the guitar after listening to The Beatles. At 16, he played at night in pubs, and when he was17 he entered an art school. In 1966 he released a large number of songs: Cat Stevens became famous thanks to his first single “I Love my dog”. In 1967 he released his first two studio albums: Matthew and Son and New Masters on which there is “The First Cut Is the Deepest”, one of his famous songs. Cat Steven’s career was interrupted in 1969 because of tuberculosis, which forced him to stop music for a year; this disease will have a lasting influence. Less