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Post by lars on Mar 22, 2007 14:38:49 GMT -5
Echo-Lebenswerk 2007 für Yusuf Islam alias Cat Stevens!!  Berlin (ddp). Yusuf Islam alias Cat Stevens bekommt am Sonntag bei der Echo-Verleihung 2007 in Berlin den ECHO Sonderpreis - Lebenswerk als Musiker und Botschafter zwischen den Kulturen. Der britische Musiker werde bei der ECHO Gala zudem den Song «Maybe There´s A World» von seinem aktuellen Album «An Other Cup» singen, teilten die Veranstalter am Donnerstag mit. Mit dem Echo-Sonderpreis würdigt die Deutsche Phono-Akademie Islams musikalisches, soziales und politisches Engagement. Der Musiker, der 2006 nach 28 Jahren erstmals wieder eine Platte veröffentlichte, wurde 1947 in London geboren. Er startetet seine Karriere in den 1960er Jahren als Cat Stevens. 1978 zog er sich aus dem Musikgeschäft zurück, konvertierte zum Islam und änderte seinen Namen in Yusuf Islam. Seitdem fließen seine Gewinne aus Plattenverkäufen in Wohltätigkeitsprojekte und islamische Schulen. Islam engagiert sich auch für Hilfsprojekte der Vereinten Nationen. TV Details: ECHO 2007 - Der Deutsche Musikpreis DATE: 25.03.2007 TIME: 19.05 - 0.15 TV Channel: RTL - LIVE BROADCAST |
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Post by Vivian on Mar 22, 2007 15:15:54 GMT -5
Can we have a translation, please.
Peace,Vivian
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Post by lars on Mar 22, 2007 15:19:17 GMT -5
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Post by lars on Mar 22, 2007 15:26:32 GMT -5
Auszug aus dem ECHO Pressetext: Yusuf kündigte an, in Zukunft werde er keine weiteren neuen Alben mehr veröffentlichen. 
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 22, 2007 15:35:12 GMT -5
Can we have a translation, please. Peace,Vivian Br. Yusuf is going to receive a special award for his "life's work as a musician and emissary between cultures" in Germany on March 25th. It will be televised. Br Yusuf has also announced that he will not release any further albums in the future. Kareema |
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 22, 2007 15:36:31 GMT -5
Auszug aus dem ECHO Pressetext: Yusuf kündigte an, in Zukunft werde er keine weiteren neuen Alben mehr veröffentlichen. Yusuf announced that he will not release any other new albums in the future. Kareema |
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 22, 2007 15:50:17 GMT -5
Auszug aus dem ECHO Pressetext:
Yusuf versteht sich heute als Kulturvermittler: "Die Muslime können in mir etwas über die westliche Gesellschaft lernen, und der Westen kann durch mich den Islam verstehen lernen."
Excerpt from the ECHO press release:
Yusuf understands today that he is an intermediary between cultures. "Through me Muslims may be able to learn something of Western society and the West may be able to learn to understand Islam."
Kareema
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Post by Daddy-o on Mar 22, 2007 16:53:03 GMT -5
With regard to Yusuf not making any more albums... this cannot be right, Yusuf is surely taking each day as it comes, I doubt that he'd make a comment like this.
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Post by Vivian on Mar 22, 2007 16:57:19 GMT -5
With regard to Yusuf not making any more albums... this cannot be right, Yusuf is surely taking each day as it comes, I doubt that he'd make a comment like this. I don't think he would either. Yusuf has come too far to make that kind of comment. Peace,Vivian |
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Post by Vivian on Mar 22, 2007 16:58:23 GMT -5
But I am thrilled that Yusuf is receiving an award for his life's work. Very much deserved, indeed.
Peace,Vivian
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Post by portobella on Mar 22, 2007 16:59:51 GMT -5
With regard to Yusuf not making any more albums... this cannot be right, Yusuf is surely taking each day as it comes, I doubt that he'd make a comment like this. I don't think he would either. Yusuf has come too far to make that kind of comment. Peace,Vivian I hope that you are right, my friends! I got a little depressed when I first read this thread, but then I got hopeful that whoever wrote the story misunderstood something that Yusuf said. Bella |
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Post by Chris on Mar 23, 2007 9:28:11 GMT -5
I agree with Daddyo, Vivian and others. I feel if this were the case, he would announce it on his website.
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Post by Bamboozle on Mar 23, 2007 9:51:59 GMT -5
Sounds to me like something lost in translation
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Post by SuzieQ on Mar 23, 2007 11:20:40 GMT -5
I have just seen this and put it through a translator, here's what came out...
Berlin, 22 March 2007 - Yusuf alias Cat Stevens ECHO receives the "special prices in the frame of the award of the German of music price life work as a musician and ambassador between the cultures". The British musician personally will accept the honor on the 25 March in Berlin and will sing the song album of appeared "Maybe There’s it A worlds" out of its ends last years "at Other Cup". Yusuf announced would publish, in the future it no more further new albums.
"Yusuf belongs to the entirely large personalities of the pop story", says Michael Haentjes, chairman of the board of the German Phono-academy. "Its meaning goes out at the same time far over the purely musical sphere. For Yusuf is a bridges farmer between the west and the islamic world. With the ECHO special price, Phono-academy lauds be the German musical, social and political engagement." The award produced by Werner Kimmig of the German of music price ECHO is transmitted on the 25 March, around 20.15 clock of RTL.
Yusuf published "at Other Cup", the first new album in the past November after 28 years. Million of fans in all world had waited longing for a musical life sign of the song-poet, that with soft Folk-hit as well as "Morning Has Broken", "Peace Train" or "Father & Son" classic of the pop story created. That 1947 in London as a son of a Greek father and a Swedish mother born Steven Demetri Georgiou Cat Stevens career made years in the second half of the 60er under the name as a pop music. 1968 sick it at tuberculosis and paused for two years. 1970 a shining comeback succeeded it with the album "Mona Bone Jackson". Albums as well as "Tea For The Tillerman" followed or "Buddha And The Chocolate box" - altogether master works. Cat Stevens advanced to a superstar of the '70er's.
He withdrew 1978 out of the music business, converted to Islam and changed its name in Yusuf Islam. Since its conversion, all shares of the profits flow out of its Plattenverkäufen into charity projects and/or into the islamic schools, that it constructed in north London. In the '90er's he engaged himself for in Bosnia, in the Kosovo and in Iraq active auxiliary projects of the United Nations. It recovered 2003 the world Social Award, and 2004 out of the hand of Michail Gorbatschow that one of Peace-Award. Yusuf understands itself today as a culture mediator: "The Moslem can in me something over the western company learn, and the west can through me Islam understand learn."
I am sure that Yusuf is going to release other albums, he has mentioned that he has been working on the next album in several interviews, if my memory serves me correctly, and yes I think it may have lost something in the translation. Prices being PRIZES for one. The Album, and Song titles for another. lol
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 23, 2007 16:13:09 GMT -5
Auszug aus dem ECHO Pressetext: Yusuf kündigte an, in Zukunft werde er keine weiteren neuen Alben mehr veröffentlichen. Yusuf announced that he will not release any other new albums in the future. Kareema  ? Oh well! |
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Post by marier on Mar 23, 2007 16:13:58 GMT -5
Thanks for that Sue, very interesting reading ;D I'm sure I have heard or read also about new albums |
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 23, 2007 16:38:53 GMT -5
Yeah... I know Yusuf has more music in him. Let's hope it doesn't stay there!  I'm still waiting for more sonic imagery! |
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 23, 2007 22:56:27 GMT -5
Are you guys aware of this site? www.yusuf-islam.de/The German site lists the appearance on German TV on March 25th. It appears that not all the info is disseminated on the English site. Kareema |
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 23, 2007 23:07:26 GMT -5
BTW according to the ECHO 2007 Deutscher Musikpreis site, Bono will receive also receive a Special Award... for "Global Commitment".
Kareema
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 24, 2007 9:02:52 GMT -5
Are you guys aware of this site? www.yusuf-islam.de/The German site lists the appearance on German TV on March 25th. It appears that not all the info is disseminated on the English site. Kareema What is it with Yusuf and Germany? |
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Post by waterside on Mar 24, 2007 18:29:02 GMT -5
Here is how babelfish translated it: babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr"Berlin, 22 March 2007 - Yusuf alias Cat of stevens receives the "special price life's work as a musician and Ambassador between the cultures" in the context of the award of the German music price ECHO. The British musician will personally receive the honor on 25 March in Berlin and to the Song "Maybe There's A World" from its end of last yearly published album "at OTHER Cup" will sing. Yusuf did not announce, in the future it further new albums will more publish." That makes it sound like he didn't annouce whether he would or not. |
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Post by Vivian on Mar 24, 2007 18:33:59 GMT -5
Now that makes sense. If anything, Yusuf would have said "If God Wills".
Peace,Vivian
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 24, 2007 19:08:07 GMT -5
Here is how babelfish translated it: babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr Yusuf did not announce, in the future it further new albums will more publish." That makes it sound like he didn't annouce whether he would or not. Yeah, but kareema's translation still stands as correct. So.... Still.. it's puzzling, I must say... |
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 24, 2007 22:32:32 GMT -5
Here is how babelfish translated it:http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr Yusuf did not announce, in the future it further new albums will more publish." That makes it sound like he didn't annouce whether he would or not. Yeah, but kareema's translation still stands as correct. So.... Still.. it's puzzling, I must say... literal translation of sentence: Yusuf kündigte an, in Zukunft werde er keine weiteren neuen Alben mehr veröffentlichenYusuf announced, in future would he no further new albums more publish.Babelfish is just plain wrong. I suspect that what is being said here is that Br Yusuf may not intend to produce any more "mainstream" albums. And if God wills, it will be. Kareema |
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Post by Daddy-o on Mar 25, 2007 2:13:24 GMT -5
It translates as follows:
Yusuf will continue to write and record songs in his own time.
I looked it up on Georgefish.
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Post by flemmishfan on Mar 25, 2007 4:57:07 GMT -5
Maybe we can ask him how the ins and outs are .He has a my space and you can mail him.Regine
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 25, 2007 8:24:15 GMT -5
George!
You should hear me LOL right now!
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 25, 2007 8:26:23 GMT -5
Blog, Yusuf! Blog!
Explain!
:-)
(footnote: I took his statement to (perhaps) mean that he will no longer outright publish individual albums of his own. I guess he's going back to Island!)
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Post by Lucy13 on Mar 25, 2007 11:09:01 GMT -5
Here's another outlet's take on what he said... www.pop100.com/news_detail.php3?id=4105Just their rehashed interpretation, granted. But proof that this news is traveling around (at least in Germany), and it would be great if Yusuf could confirm or deny... or at least leave the future open ... Neben der Preisverleihung ist jedoch die viel größere Überrraschung, dass der 1947 als Steven Demetri Georgiou geborene Songwriter ankündigte, in Zukunft keine Alben mehr zu veröffentlichen.
Damit scheint das im November 2006 nach 28-jähriger Plattenabstinenz veröffentlichte Comeback-Werk "Another Cup" für Yusuf nur eine einmalige Ausnahme gewesen zu sein. My shoddy translation: ... the far greater surprise that ... he announces in future that he will release no further albums...
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And so it appears that his comeback album, AOC, released in November 2006 after a 28 year recording hiatus, was a one-time exception." BTW, just realized, tonight's the night! Hope Yusuf and family have a good time. (Why can't I be in Berlin today?? I love Berlin!) |
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Post by kareema113 on Mar 25, 2007 11:25:09 GMT -5
Blog, Yusuf! Blog! Explain! :-) (footnote: I took his statement to (perhaps) mean that he will no longer outright publish individual albums of his own. I guess he's going back to Island!) You mean "mainstream" albums when you say that perhaps he isn't going to release an individual album again, am I right? Mountain of Light, Jamal Records and Ya Music are Br. Yusuf's private labels... And as far as an explanation from Br. Yusuf goes, he is the international man of mystery, you know. Kareema |
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I'm still waiting for more sonic imagery!