/y-P)3_ +5HO T{wj 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
Mz{>vb 歌手姓名:Ayo
My1E@< 唱片公司:Universal
ahf$#UQLb 发行日期:2008年10月6日
@a3<fmJ 专辑流派:Soul/Folk
*Js<VR 推荐指数:4星
5_i&}c23Vn ~_oTEXT^O 专辑介绍:
}Jtaq[y\r `}=Fw0 At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
; 6zu! time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
Df4n9m}E to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
i &KbzOY first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
+?L~fM69B her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
6D+k[oHZm taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
Uexb>| vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
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ay[6 Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
dGfWRqS] who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
^KhFBed in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
Fb}9cpz{ first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
}@#eD drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
dy0!Zz >/n/n{{ At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
w5|"cD#8A Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
vTP_vsdeG talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
jQdfFR her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
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GX/p6" Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
bEE:6)]G Polydor Records.
eQeNlCG SVpe^iQ]1\ Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
!6}Cs3. her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
un/R7" Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
~cez+VQe days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
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b %% organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
Q2 edS| released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
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. 2007 in the United States and Japan.
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hpj}KZ At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
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^Wmbw Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
:I7MP performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
~Ch`A@=5 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
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rsh[ and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
bH.">IV Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
4EELaP|% 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
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United States and Canada.
DUtpd| #}gc6T~0 On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
ox*Ka] album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
|~/{lE=I Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
p\HXE4d' is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
IW46-;l7 includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
k^L (q\D (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
M aEh8* (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
Vz,WPm$I Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
WGO=@jkf composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
RHBEC@d[} will be released at the end of September 2008 by
8e-{S~@W Universal Music France.
Gmwn: `rcjZ^n 曲目列表:
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}2Wd`kD 1. I Am Not Afraid
e (f)?H 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
6xOR,p>E 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
`?$R_uFh: 4. Love And Hate
J?]W!V7C 5. Get Out Of My Way
a[u8x mH 6. Better Days
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ooq>/OI0 8. Piece Of Joy
h%O`,iD2 9. Lonely
olJ9Kfc0 10. Sometimes
EbW7Av 11. What's This All About ?
s)L7o)56/ 12. Mother
}Bb(wP^B. 13. Thank You