j@jaFsX| Fdgu=qMm 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
icq!^5BzL 歌手姓名:Ayo
+tbG^w% 唱片公司:Universal
C_SJ4Sh 发行日期:2008年10月6日
OT6uAm+\7_ 专辑流派:Soul/Folk
>t-9yO1XQq 推荐指数:4星
ac8+?FpK # OK{_WTCe> 专辑介绍:
|sf&t o6JCy\Bx At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
N5>ioJj time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
6#sd"JvtQ to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
L&[uE;ro first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
#0K122oY her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
un{LwZH taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
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uJ Q#l\t Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
LvlVZjT who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
p 8,wr ) in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
?:D#\4=US first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
i:9f# drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
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ZPrL)'] Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
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(*{Y#XD{ her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
:VP*\K/: Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
,+0#.Ns$ Polydor Records.
f+#^Lngo {Kn:>l$*7 Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
Gqe?CM her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
~p9nAACU Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
!q:[$g-@q days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
2Zf}t organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
G}!dm0s$ released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
#G'Y2l 2007 in the United States and Japan.
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06BrX 84xA/BR W At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
H7&>c M Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
q)Qd+:a7{ performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
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