vb0Ca+}} D[@-`F 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
|tI{MztJ"c 歌手姓名:Ayo
i: UN 唱片公司:Universal
XS@iu,uO 发行日期:2008年10月6日
;WN%tI) 专辑流派:Soul/Folk
>BO!jv!a 推荐指数:4星
tQ;Fgv8Y! OI)k0t^;D 专辑介绍:
D&mPYxXL xP1D 9 At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
5?>Q[a.Ne time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
j^ 8Hjg to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
,:}VbQ:3I first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
cqh1,h$sG her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
U/q"F<?.c taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
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{yf,:5 Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
olo9YrHn who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
_%rkN0-(a in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
T^|6{ S\ first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
PB8U+ drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
96F+I!qC :5^5l At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
TffeCaBv Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
Pvkr$ou talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
kbz+6LcV her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
1?p:66WmR Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
%I)*5 M6 Polydor Records.
<3k9 y^0 B$97"$#u Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
G"yhu + her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
r`0oI66B/ Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
z*^vdi0 days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
,tFLx#e# organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
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>?X(,c 2007 in the United States and Japan.
.ddf'$6h H8qAj At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
5&U?\YNLa Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
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^zS|O]Tx 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
j =b-Y and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
6k\8ulHw Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
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~{yQsEU United States and Canada.
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n<7R6)j6 album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
G?yG|5.pU Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
:+S~N)0j^ is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
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tqe8:\1yK (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
UjU*`}k3 (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
JH;\wfrD Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
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2,X~a;+ will be released at the end of September 2008 by
<X_I` Universal Music France.
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hVB^: 1. I Am Not Afraid
jLs-v 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
M6P`~emX2 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
Sp=6%3fZ]m 4. Love And Hate
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Ol~jq;75 6. Better Days
,wN>,( 7. Change
ljij/ C= 8. Piece Of Joy
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:!h1S`wS 10. Sometimes
0]c 2 T 11. What's This All About ?
M@V.?;F}, 12. Mother
a;Q.R 13. Thank You