o3ZqPk]al + lNAog 专辑名称：Gravity At Last
ExW3LM9 ( 歌手姓名：Ayo
37U2Tb!y ' 唱片公司：Universal
;,2;J3,pA 发行日期：2008年10月6日
k@Q >(` 专辑流派：Soul/Folk
u,88 V@^ 推荐指数：4星
*[ ww; Y@# r GV> 专辑介绍：
DxvD 1u -]-?>gkN5 At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
r.vezsH time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
v-MrurQ4 to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
v K7J;U+cJ first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
},& =r= B her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
< cUaIb;(4 taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
g-NfZj? vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
$%K yz\;7/ Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
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who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
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in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
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}|-Yd"$ drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
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=eb na0-v- At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
0Vwl\,7z9 Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
|WUm;o4E`U talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
An2Wj her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
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Polydor Records.
? ,AWXiif ,^m;[Dl7 Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
a'prlXr\4 her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
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QP={b+8 released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
'>aj5tZ>R 2007 in the United States and Japan.
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0z S > N/K At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
&"/IV$H Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
t$k$ Hd'; performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
v0 uA]6: 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
=.9uu F: and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
/)LI1\ o Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
/q\{Os rX 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
m{ VC1BkZ United States and Canada.
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"<^]d~a_ On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
vN8 Xq+ album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
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i3usZ{_r is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
8r-'m%l includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
*0!IHr"fn (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
<7 X6UL Q (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
)m4O7'2G Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
o ?]g composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
:,*{,^2q: will be released at the end of September 2008 by
MET"s.v Universal Music France.
r!W XD9# P+s -{vv{0 曲目列表：
qR>"r"Fq D8r=V f 1. I Am Not Afraid
=0gfGwD{ 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
18{" @<wIs 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
Q4!6|%n8v 4. Love And Hate
vb1Gz]~)> 5. Get Out Of My Way
A3cW8 OClz 6. Better Days
^cz;UQX~} 7. Change
|d0,54! 8. Piece Of Joy
9 ! 6\8 9. Lonely
?=^ M(TA; 10. Sometimes
$% 5f 11. What's This All About ?
GJB= 5nE 12. Mother
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