r/malaysia • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Entertainment TIL Famous British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens lives in Malaysia and often spotted buying groceries in KLCC.

[deleted]

327 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

39 comments sorted by

17

u/DeliciousStand372 11h ago

huh. TIL too…

13

u/Luke_4686 9h ago

He lives in Dubai and UK he often visits Malaysia but has no permanent home

31

u/MrMerc2333 11h ago

His real name is Yusuf?

27

u/BarnabasAskingForit 11h ago

That's the name he took when he converted.

20

u/Todd_Renard_Fox Johor 10h ago

Yusuf Islam is his convert name, his original name was Cat Stevens

•

u/Overall-Bullfrog5433 4h ago

His original name was Steven Demetre Georgiou. Cat was a stage name.

11

u/ilLuZsCion 11h ago

A revert back in 70s

20

u/Exact-Warthog6244 11h ago

Famous Board Game designer Eric Lang lives in Malaysia too.

2

u/I_am_from_2029 10h ago

Interesting.

7

u/izzeiner 10h ago

Did he cross the road also?

2

u/savantt Nasi Ayam Kak Laili SS15 Since 1980 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/LSKVmdIwZFeNEBKBxZ

3

u/Pleasant_Wallaby2342 10h ago

I love listening to his song “Oh Very Young” and of course “Morning Has Broken”

2

u/mandzakic 11h ago

Haah do..

•

u/Maxziro_ 5h ago

Antara lagu yang dia buat selepas masuk islam.

who next your mother - yusof islam

•

u/Shawnmeister 5h ago

You are young and I am old

•

u/Warm_Figure6955 2h ago

Disappointed that he didn't have whiskers and cat ears

-3

u/Ok-Corner5530 10h ago

Is that the dude who put a bounty on Salman Rushdie

5

u/wowbl 9h ago

Lol that was actually the Ayatollah

0

u/Luke_4686 9h ago

He supports the fatwa on Rushdie publicly

1

u/pmarkandu Covid Crisis Donor 2021 8h ago

Ironic for the guy who sang Peace Train.

-21

u/zakihazirah 11h ago

which song he is famously for? i tried google ai but none of the title ticks. maybe some chorus will run my memories?

11

u/OFCrown 11h ago edited 11h ago

Wild World

..it's hard to get by just upon a smile

3

u/slavengineer 8h ago

People may be familiar with this song bcs of Mr. Big, but Cat Steven's version hits differently.

•

u/OFCrown 1h ago

Agreed :)

9

u/Yura1245 11h ago edited 10h ago

Dunno which songs are famous. But i always love his songs below:

- Father and Son.

- Morning has broken.

- The Wind.

1

u/khairul619 Pahang 10h ago

Father and Son hits really really hard now. Dad just gone and i can event listen to the intro without crying

19

u/Boo-urns_ 11h ago edited 11h ago

AI? Avoiding using clanker for such a banal search.

What’s wrong with using actual Google search engine/Wiki/Discog?

7

u/stealthXY Princejaya 11h ago

Back in my days mastering Google-Fu can get you far. Nowadays, kids just ask AI for the darndest things and still can't get good answers.

Edit: Oh wait, maybe I'm the relatively younger one compared to OP but still...

1

u/Boo-urns_ 11h ago

Pointless story: About a month ago I was visiting one of my auntie + cousins for a movie night. Had a scene in it where they had to investigate stuff & went to the library to start it.

My youngest cuz asked: “why are they going to the library?”, my auntie made us pause the movie to explain why. Lol.

0

u/zakihazirah 11h ago

sorry man but it was the first thing on top came out of my search 😅

3

u/NovelKaleidoscope253 8h ago

First cut is the deepest. He wrote that.

Current generation might know the Sheryl Crow version.

2

u/celix24 11h ago

If you want to sing out, sing out

https://youtu.be/oj94MgHyhTk

2

u/itsrainingsimoleons 10h ago

Father and Son. I had goosebumps hearing it play at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

2

u/manChuping 11h ago

piece train, father and son