Cat Stevens
UK
Born: 21 July 1948
Genres: Pop/Rock, Country, Folk
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Folk/Country Rock, Folk-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Folk-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Psychedelic, Psychedelic/Garage, Soft Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, AM Pop, Early Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock
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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 assi...
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