Submitted by: kirkland on Saturday September 09th, 2006 at 11:22 AM EST

Yusuf Islam, the singer who was known as Cat Stevens before he underwent a spiritual conversion, will release his first pop-music album in 28 years in November.

The recording, "An Other Cup," will be distributed by Atlantic Records in North America in a venture with Islam's own label, Ya Records, Atlantic said today. New York-based Atlantic is owned by Warner Music Group Corp.

Islam, who as Cat Stevens wrote and performed such 1970s hit songs as "Moonshadow" and "Morning Has Broken," became a Muslim and changed his name in 1978. His conversion came after he almost drowned in the ocean off Malibu, California. He was prevented from entering the U.S. in September 2004 after being placed on a terrorism watch list by the government.

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