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':Y 专辑名称：Gravity At Last
mm3zQ!2j. 歌手姓名：Ayo
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j 唱片公司：Universal
E>o&GYc 发行日期：2008年10月6日
i(dXA(p 专辑流派：Soul/Folk
m~ b#:4D3 推荐指数：4星
<6~/sa4GN !.x=r 专辑介绍：
D7 8) 4>X 0b!fWS?,k0 At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
Nj! R9N time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
J\,@Bm|1n{ to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
GL oL4el first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
lUm}nsp=X her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
&QHA_+88W taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
|G5=>W vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
aG8;,H=%, Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
9 ;! uV>-H who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
@5 POgQ 8 in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
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_'o^@v: drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
3n=cw2FG 4%Wn}@ At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
?7uStqa Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
/R+]}Lt~%* talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
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her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
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\G5Y DqC }f# Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
E* DVQ3~ her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
6d?2{_} , Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
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5f days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
26klW:2* organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
M%dl?9pbq released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
3Tte8]0 2007 in the United States and Japan.
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S d?+oT0pCH At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
)* AA9 Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
"rlS K >` performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
.}u(& 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
7&S|y]$~ and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
g 5YsV p Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
7Mb t*[n 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
f0`rJ ?us United States and Canada.
y5t Ap W;9X*I8f8 On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
H\>I &gC' album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
4Xho0lO& Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
GZ>% &^E is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
UA u4x 7 includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
a/` Yh>ou (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
h+d;`7Z> (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
^ XB8A=xi Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
'|R@k_nx composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
j24 will be released at the end of September 2008 by
%Yn )t3d Universal Music France.
$%"}N _M "jJ)hk5e 曲目列表：
zi&d 3jVm[c5%] 1. I Am Not Afraid
/6*.%M>r 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
JX<W[P>M 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
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(>[ 4. Love And Hate
A :J{ 5. Get Out Of My Way
sYI':UQe 6. Better Days
GLF"`M /g 7. Change
cTTE] ix] 8. Piece Of Joy
X1dG'PQ 9. Lonely
:vT%5CQ 10. Sometimes
:J-5Q]# 11. What's This All About ?
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XG Bym 12. Mother
W-QPO 13. Thank You
