'Peace Train' Singer to Release Pop Album
Rare Release for Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens
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Care to illuminate on what makes this world so "fragile"? Like, maybe, your terrorist Islamic buddies?
"It is important for me to be able to help bridge the cultural gaps others are sometimes frightened to cross."
Like the yawning abyss of a cultural gap that surrounds your death cult?
The album, "An Other Cup," is set for release in November. His last studio album was 1978's "Back to Earth." "Yusuf's new songs are as moving and timeless as the classics that inspired a generation," Atlantic Chairman/CEO Craig Kallman said in a statement. "His spiritual quest is one of the most extraordinary stories of our time - a life journey marked by courage, devotion and transformation."
Which sort of devotion to what kind of beliefs and transformed into exactly what sort of being, he neglected to mention.
The London-born singer had a string of pop hits in the 1960s and '70s including "Here Comes My Baby," "Wild World," "Peace Train " and Moonshadow." After converting to Islam, he changed his name and left the music world.
Not quite permanently enough, however.
His charity, Small Kindness, provides aid to orphans and families in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq, among other regions.