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?o 专辑名称：Gravity At Last
0{ R=9wcc 歌手姓名：Ayo
Hj,A5#|=J 唱片公司：Universal
IPo?:1x]s 发行日期：2008年10月6日
; 4~hB 专辑流派：Soul/Folk
@F*%9LPv 推荐指数：4星
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I,8Er2;) C;urBsC At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
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3m)y|$R to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
J- hbh first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
&:) Wh[ her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
'! $Rw"K. taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
c! 9nnTap vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
}vM("v|M Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
R~$qo)v who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
n ?Nt6U in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
92K Rb;c first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
}`~+]9 < drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
b SU~XGPB C 3YT1tK At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
`W*U 4?M Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
_5N]B|cO talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
8-77d^cprR her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
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lU8`F(Mn Polydor Records.
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h9*z3 Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
9qG6Pb her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
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d-dEQKI?; days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
N<injx organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
e**qF=HCw released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
[HZv8HU| 2007 in the United States and Japan.
6,{$J Zz T9j~ At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
Y/zj[> Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
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WI-1)1t 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
?<'}r7D and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
a!AA] Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
SI-Ops~e 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
jtc]>]6i United States and Canada.
NHZz _a= 9mTJ|sN:e On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
hZ album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
v^ V itLC Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
:G%61x&=Zc is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
SNI)9k( T{ includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
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@t_=Yl2; composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
Ej8 ^ Zg will be released at the end of September 2008 by
@r/n F5 Universal Music France.
wcY? rE9 #'9HU2 曲目列表：
j HJ`,# L0WN\|D 1. I Am Not Afraid
b!5~7Ub.No 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
UrEs4R1# 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
: E )>\& 4. Love And Hate
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5. Get Out Of My Way
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`&c kZiq 7. Change
]|P iF+ 8. Piece Of Joy
_^%,x 9. Lonely
n]o<S+z 10. Sometimes
%aVq+kC h 11. What's This All About ?
x-&@wMqkc 12. Mother
'kO!^6=4M 13. Thank You
