0=t_ a]+ uLe+1`Y5Ux 专辑名称：Gravity At Last
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?N(t/h 歌手姓名：Ayo
yoGE#+|7^ 唱片公司：Universal
vQc>jmS+n 发行日期：2008年10月6日
\ 8ulX>] 专辑流派：Soul/Folk
03$Ay _ 2 推荐指数：4星
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JDP 专辑介绍：
)Q w|)='- ln3x1^! At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
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time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
_L%/NXu, to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
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A`#5pGR her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
*v8Cj(69 taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
Fe"0Hp+ vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
| +suGqo Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
by>,h4 who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
G5Td AW in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
cM C1|3 first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
@<>](4D drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
lJ}G"RTm I BES$[ At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
?#J ~ X\5 Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
fCx~K' UWn talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
AGLzA+6M her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
^R>&^"oI Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
<9\_b 6 Polydor Records.
lua t1#~J _Xsn1 Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
\DeZY97p% her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
X+P3a/ T Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
;2#7"a^ days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
"84.qgYaG organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
OwSr`2'9 released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
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M"X/([G At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
"=P@x|I Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
N{|N_}X`Y performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
He"> kJx 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
VdVca1Z and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
^hY<avi6s Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
u'Mq^8 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
+]5JXt^ United States and Canada.
)Je iTh^ AHn^^'&x[ On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
s )~Q@ze2 album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
mR8&9]g& Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
|Vd)7/LN is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
8I @= ? includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
ZiVT c/b (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
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,((5|MbM/ Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
cN&b$ 8O=% composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
:t\ PYDp1 will be released at the end of September 2008 by
J]fjg%C2m Universal Music France.
?%oPWmj} I#uJdV|x 曲目列表：
5-=mtvA: Fc 5g~T 1. I Am Not Afraid
) ae/+Q8 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
R6{%o:{ 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
;I5HMc_a" 4. Love And Hate
Dc #iM0 5. Get Out Of My Way
Y,>]) R[4 6. Better Days
l#]Z?zW. 7. Change
;v8,r#4 8. Piece Of Joy
j&Z:|WniK 9. Lonely
i>b^n+74> 10. Sometimes
BR"*-$u0; 11. What's This All About ?
/F/`?=1<$ 12. Mother
i&"I/!3Q@ 13. Thank You
