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Cat Stevens has been forced to cancel his latest tour due to delays in securing his visa.
The singer, 77, was due to take his Cat On The Road To Findout Book Tour to North America in October but has told fans the dates aren’t going to happen.
The musician, who goes by the name Yusuf Islam since coverting to Islam, took to Instagram to let his followers know he was ‘really upset’.
He wrote: ‘Sadly, my Cat on the Road to Findout Book Tour in the U.S. looks like it won’t go ahead as scheduled in October.
‘Waiting months for visa approvals, we held out as long as we could. However, at this point, the production logistics necessary for my show cannot be arranged in time.
‘I am really upset! Not least for my fans who have bought tickets and made travel plans to see me perform.
Cat Stevens has been forced to cancel his latest tour due to delays in securing his visa
The singer, 77, was due to take his Cat On The Road To Findout Book Tour to North America in October but has told fans the dates aren’t going to happen.
‘North American audiences may still get a chance to see the tour if visa approvals eventually come through.
‘Those dates would be some time away because of other travel tour plans but, hopefully, fans will be able to hop on the Peace Train route at some time in the future.’
His tour was due to begin in Philadelphia on October 2 with various other dates planned. He last had a six-date concert tour in North America in 2014.
Cat converted to Islam in 1977 and spent two decades recording music that met only strict religious standards.
The singer returned to performing secular music in 2006. His most recent album, King Of The Land, was released in 2023.
Cat converted to Islam following a near-death experience in 1976 when he nearly drowned while swimming off the coast of Malibu, California.
He looked up to the sky and said: ‘Oh God, if You save me, I’ll work for You!’ at which point a wave rose up and moved him closer to land.
The singer took it as a sign and felt that ‘God was right there’.
The musician took to Instagram to let his followers know he was ‘really upset’
Soon after, his brother David bought him a copy of the Qur’an which ultimately led to his conversion and renaming himself Yusuf.
Speaking to The Sun, he said: ‘I was like, ‘This is actually it’.
‘Everything I’d been writing in my songs was converging into this one new message. It overtook everything.’