jFBLElE ,4hQ#x 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
0s"g%gq| 歌手姓名:Ayo
8S_i; 唱片公司:Universal
#\kYGr-G) 发行日期:2008年10月6日
o7N3:) 专辑流派:Soul/Folk
2 w2JFdm 推荐指数:4星
/jdq7CF ALqP;/ 专辑介绍:
Z[Gs/D Y]ML-smN At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
:^+ aJ] time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
Ij_Y+Mnl4: to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
fHek!Jv. first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
**L . !/ her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
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1=x4m=wV vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
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j6-~< Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
<QGf9{m who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
Fa`/i v in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
85U')LY first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
-AUdBG drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
n22k<@y c!Gnd*!?- At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
#M;Cw}pW Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
JHpaDy* talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
yjUSM}$ her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
-7:J#T/\ Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
>r] bfN, Polydor Records.
Fv \yhR 9ZjSM,+ Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
l`x;Og>a her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
0?3Ztdlb Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
>'4Bq*5> days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
Gma)8X# organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
R8a4F^{* released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
ob=GB71j55 2007 in the United States and Japan.
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'%AG:~ At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
P+!j[X^ Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
,/n<Qg"` performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
N5u.V\F!z\ 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
ek~bXy{O` and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
lYkm1 Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
@}:}7R6 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
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KD9Y (;2J}XQvO~ On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
E5.3wOE album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
KN>U6=WN Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
ZSj^\JU is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
y#HDJ=2 includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
wehZ7eqm (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
juPW!u (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
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HOLz"! Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
W]p)}#FR composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
b&s"/Y89 will be released at the end of September 2008 by
bV_@!KL$ Universal Music France.
+qsNz*@p" h~rSM#7m 曲目列表:
eC:?j`H- #Aox$[|@ 1. I Am Not Afraid
w 8M,35b 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
|) {)w` 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
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{e4`D1B 5. Get Out Of My Way
:4]^PB@dl 6. Better Days
`!<RP' 7. Change
F.i%o2P3 8. Piece Of Joy
6XPf0Gl 9. Lonely
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Op^r }7 11. What's This All About ?
^nn3; 12. Mother
1Ao YG_ 13. Thank You