Cats In The Cradle

He began releasing music as yusuf in 2006.

Cats in the cradle. Cat s in the cradle is a 1974 folk rock song by harry chapin from the album verities balderdash. He is a british singer songwriter multi instrumentalist humanitarian and education philanthropist in december 1977 stevens converted to islam and adopted the name yusuf islam the following year. In 1992 american rock band ugly kid joe covered the song and released i. Stevens albums tea for the tillerman 1970 and teaser.

Cat stevens is the former stage name of steven demetre georgiou born in london on 21 july 1948. Chapin s recording of the song was nominated for the 1975 grammy award for best male pop vocal performance and was inducted into the grammy hall of fame in 2011.