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

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专辑名称：Gravity At Last z0Zl'  
歌手姓名：Ayo ,JZ@qmQ,  
唱片公司：Universal um8ZhXq  
发行日期：2008年10月6日 R*&3i$S
 
专辑流派：Soul/Folk ;QEGr|(  
推荐指数：4星 .FMF0r>l  
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专辑介绍： 1}ToR=  
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At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short O0$ijJa|  
time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself R>0ta
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to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her *M`[YG19!e  
first song, which was about her mother, and which helped q?0
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her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical Ppp&3h[dW)  
taste was influenced by her father's large selection of &Y#9~
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vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny HE,wEKp  
Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father, }Ql;%7  
who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering Ahwu'mgnC  
in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a )7`~U"r  
first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to 0>?mF]M  
drop out of school at the age of eighteen. ~~fL`"  
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At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in rpXw 8  
Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical rvfl~<G*  
talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave ftH 0aI  
her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers CNN?8/u!@  
Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with kU^@R<Fo  
Polydor Records. LnyA5T  
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Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded 2 rBF<z7  
her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York #F6ak,9S4  
Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five -OW$  
days under live conditions, with a group of musicians 0yZw`|Zh[  
organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was 3
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released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November LaIif_fie^  
2007 in the United States and Japan. ){(cRB$  
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At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through $N ]P#g?Q  
Germany and the United States. On her American tour she W ][IHy<   
performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January Pb`sn5;  
2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, #,9|Hr%  
and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig WUV Q_<i+  
Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June M<L< mP}  
2008 the singer started her second tour through the 6x7=0}'  
United States and Canada. g!QumRF  
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On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second ]fc:CR  
album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in (l^lS=x  
Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She :Oj+Tc9A  
is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band u,]yd*  
includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell df)1}/*L  
(guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson BA5= D>T-  
(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine y7Ub~qU  
Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and -|T^  
composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and Af%?WZlOq  
will be released at the end of September 2008 by Lr~K3nb   
Universal Music France. ?t"PawBWE  
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曲目列表： 3k(?`4JJ  
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1. I Am Not Afraid @rF\6I  
2. Maybe (Ayo Blues) h=t
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3. Slow Slow (Run Run) E}GSii%S  
4. Love And Hate .edZKmC6  
5. Get Out Of My Way G@'0vYb#  
6. Better Days K_xOY *  
7. Change tv{.iM|V c  
8. Piece Of Joy kr/h^e  
9. Lonely _aGdC8%[  
10. Sometimes {+EPE2X=C  
11. What's This All About ? {V&7JZl,/  
12. Mother c%dy$mkqgK  
13. Thank You