Peace Train

Peace Train
Cat Stevens, a folk and rock singer and song writer started his career in 1966. He is known for writing meaningful songs and lyrics. He inspires others with peace and love and wants the world to be a peaceful place. His first hit song was I love my Dog in 1968, followed by Mathew and Son in the album New Masters. Some of his most popular songs were Peace Train, Moon Shadow, and Wild World. After many years of playing music he slowly became Islam and switched his name to Yusef Islam.

He is from London, England. He was the son of Greek father and Sweedish mother. The start of his career started by writing, singing, and dancing to Greek folk songs. When he entered high school he started to take interest in rock & roll. He was influenced by The Beatles, some British pop. By the time he started college he was already singing and performing his own songs. His lyrics are mostly about peace. He was inspired by folk and rock and roll artist. He sings while playing an acoustic guitar in all of his songs.

After selling tons of albums he unfortunately got came down with the disease called Tuberculosis. It took him three years to recover and start writing songs again.
When he finally started to write more songs his fans were disliking his music so he started to write songs more about his personal life. He soddenly rebounded with his two biggest hits, Peace Train and Moon Shadow.

He impacted society with a peace movement. He led protest against the war and wrote a lot of songs about peace which gave a lot of people hope. A strange turn of events happened to Cat Stevens. In the late 70’s he became Islam and changed his name to Yesef Islam. After that he sadly dropped out of music. Today he is writing songs about the Muslim alphabet for kids. He is now running a Muslim school. He is married and has had 5 kids.