Ayo : Gravity At Last[Soul/Folk][166kbps avg][57M]

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专辑名称：Gravity At Last 0L>3i8'  
歌手姓名：Ayo D*.3]3-I  
唱片公司：Universal le5@WG/x  
发行日期：2008年10月6日 URVW5c  
专辑流派：Soul/Folk ~?NCmU=3  
推荐指数：4星 8ve-g\C8 H  
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专辑介绍： ?,VpZ%Df2  
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At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short a@? $#>  
time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself F.TIdkvp  
to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her 1XN%&VR>^D  
first song, which was about her mother, and which helped 7T[L5-g  
her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical OXLB{|hH80  
taste was influenced by her father's large selection of 2] fTDKh  
vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny cEHpa%_5  
Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father, IEm?'o:  
who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering KLe6V+ki*  
in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a ~T}D#}  
first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to E zcch1  
drop out of school at the age of eighteen. 1'~+.92Y  
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At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in i<S
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Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical *l d)nH{  
talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave VY/r2o#  
her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers ` ,T.  
Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with b#7nt ?`7p  
Polydor Records. (B` NnL$  
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Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded (B\Kb4m  
her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York ]Z[3 \~?  
Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five ULew ~j  
days under live conditions, with a group of musicians U$D:
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organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was *`OXgkQ  
released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November Q8HNST($?  
2007 in the United States and Japan. 0^{Tq0Ri[  
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At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through xpa+R^D5G  
Germany and the United States. On her American tour she dZ|bw0~_!  
performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January =)y$&Ydj  
2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, g,E)F90  
and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig ~/4j&IG  
Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June i MVQt1/  
2008 the singer started her second tour through the mC]Krnx  
United States and Canada. P,S!Z&!  
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On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second 937<:zo:  
album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in AFF>r# e  
Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She nr9#3Lb  
is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band AK\g -]8  
includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell -<HvhW  
(guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson $hY]EB  
(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine zdQu%q  
Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and w<^2h }5  
composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and ]NhWhJ:  
will be released at the end of September 2008 by +^ 3L~?  
Universal Music France. o\V4qekk  
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曲目列表： "u$]q1S  
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1. I Am Not Afraid tFP;CW!E  
2. Maybe (Ayo Blues) |$*9j""u  
3. Slow Slow (Run Run) 6"c!tJc7j  
4. Love And Hate j$i8@]  
5. Get Out Of My Way HFCFEamBMP  
6. Better Days 'MM~~:  
7. Change q,h.W JI  
8. Piece Of Joy KcyM2hE7  
9. Lonely u$`x]K=Zsm  
10. Sometimes ,i((;/O6  
11. What's This All About ? oDiv9jm  
12. Mother lNp :2P  
13. Thank You