V0+D{|thh6 _l,?Y;OF 专辑名称：Gravity At Last
LcCb[r 歌手姓名：Ayo
0/P!rH9 唱片公司：Universal
SvC|"-[mJ 发行日期：2008年10月6日
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OQ"%(w>Hb 推荐指数：4星
R ro|P_ h+F@apUS 专辑介绍：
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i@AO U 7onMKMktM% At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
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YAnt}]u!" to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
;hR!j!3} first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
K;;Q*NN- her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
0 z{S@ taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
UN_f2 vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
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s#pe Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
K[)N / Q who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
B' 6^E#9 in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
NWPL18*C first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
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t` <`BY^ drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
2#&9qGR f ^mxj/%L At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
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Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
I2("p.+R talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
=:`1!W0I her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
AoyU1MR( Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
w_G/[R3 Polydor Records.
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=O1CxsKt6 her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
#O ]F5JB Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
N'Va&"&73> days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
n|NI]Qi* organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
{>OuxVl??k released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
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O<S*bN >BF performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
2f`u?T 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
,!kqE Ip% and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
@z$V(}(O^ Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
Rg<y8~|'} 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
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{"y{V sB S\S On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
4 u X<sJ* album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
t ?28s/? Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
=NA L*4 c+ is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
/+2^xEIjE includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
!#3#}R.$Fl (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
M^r1b1tR (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
!rb)Y;WQt Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
mn*.z!N= composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
_zJ Y1cr will be released at the end of September 2008 by
q{ @>2AlK Universal Music France.
p(Y'fd} p4<&N MG 曲目列表：
M=26@ n 3?B q(( 1. I Am Not Afraid
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DDN#w<# 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
cc.z C3Hs3 4. Love And Hate
*7nlel 5. Get Out Of My Way
?*tpW75hR[ 6. Better Days
fseHuL=~ 7. Change
`t {aN|3V[ 8. Piece Of Joy
6 jRF[N8 9. Lonely
syv6" 2Z'B 10. Sometimes
d.% Vm&3 11. What's This All About ?
FX+Ra@I! 12. Mother
jToA"udW/ 13. Thank You
