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Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian and education philanthropist. He is a prominent convert to Islam. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were both certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years for "The First...

April Stevens (born Carol LoTempio on April 29, 1936 in Niagara Falls, New York) is an American singer. Though she has been recording since she was 16, and had a few chart successes with Henri Rene's orchestra in the early 1950s, she is perhaps best known for her 1963 duet "Deep Purple" with her brother Antonino LoTempio (singing under the stage name Nino Tempo) that went to No.1 on the Billboard charts. The song won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Recording. Subsequent recordings were much better received in Europe and Great Britain than in America, although...

Sufjan Stevens (pronounced "SOOF-yahn"; born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival through indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including experimental electronic music, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Though Stevens had announced plans to make an album for each of the 50 U.S. states, beginning the...

Fox Stevenson (aka Stanley Stevenson Byrne), formerly known as Stan SB, is a 24 year old electronic musician from Leeds, UK. He is most widely known for his drum and bass and dubstep tracks. Stan also performs live band sets with fellow artist Bustre Charles (Bustre). Fox Stevenson mostly makes, according to his SoundCloud page, hyper melodic drum and bass, dubstep and breaky stuff since 2008. Most of his vocals are performed by himself, making each of his tracks a unique masterpiece. One of His EP's, Endless EP was released on October 15, 2013 and available on iTunes and Beatport....

From http://www.savournastevenson.com/perform_biography.htm Savourna Stevenson is a world class exponent of the Scottish harp. As both a virtuoso player and a composer she ‘completely re-writes the rule-books and proves the harp is capable of being pushed beyond its usual limits ... and sometimes doing the seemingly impossible’ (Taplas). Savourna, who has been described as ‘a composer who is a national treasure’ (Herald) and ‘Mother of invention’ (Scotsman), identifies strongly with her Scottish roots while breaking through stylistic barriers between traditional, world music, blues, jazz and classical. Her musical career started in the late 70's when, at 15, she first played at...