Yusuf / Cat Stevens to Publish Memoir Cat on the Road to Findout

Yusuf / Cat Stevens has written an autobiography. Cat on the Road to Findout paperwork the singer-songwriter’s rise from folks troubadour to pop sensation earlier than his conversion to Islam and non permanent retreat from the general public eye. The ebook comes out October 7 in North America, by way of Genesis Publications, shortly after its UK launch on Constable on September 18.

In a press launch, the artist mentioned:

I’ve been on an incredible journey, which started within the slender streets of London, and led me by essentially the most iconic cities, to carry out upon the good stage of Western tradition, ascending the dizzying heights of wealth, recognition and inventive pinnacles; freely exploring huge ranges of religions and philosophies, wandering by church buildings, temples, all the way in which to the Holy abode in Jerusalem—ignoring myths and warnings—and crossing the foreboded, desert heartlands, to reach on the Home of One God in Abrahamic Arabia. What lastly elevated my perspective was a luminous Guide that completely alchemized my ideas, beliefs, with human nature. It taught me Oneness, and my place and objective throughout the universe.

In addition to the music profession that has landed him in each the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame and the Songwriters Corridor of Fame, the ebook will deal with two near-death experiences—one with tuberculosis, the opposite a near-drowning—that steered his life and music. After the latter ordeal, he devoted his life to religion, household, and humanitarian work, incomes accolades together with the Man of Peace Award, voted for by Nobel Peace laureates.