Ayo : Gravity At Last[Soul/Folk][166kbps avg][57M]

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专辑名称：Gravity At Last . Ua
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歌手姓名：Ayo '_fj:dy  
唱片公司：Universal hanS8  
发行日期：2008年10月6日 NK!#K>AO  
专辑流派：Soul/Folk /6@$^paB  
推荐指数：4星 n4A#T#D!t3  
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专辑介绍： +@m
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At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short \$Q?  
time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself qBDhCE  
to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her /r?EY &9G  
first song, which was about her mother, and which helped ozUsp[W >  
her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical L|y9T{s  
taste was influenced by her father's large selection of *-,jIaL;  
vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny H$)__V5I,q  
Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father, {^A,){uX]  
who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering 60XTdJkDkA  
in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a 4S\St<  
first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to M $\!SXL  
drop out of school at the age of eighteen. ]yV,lp  
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At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in WT'?L{  
Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical z/
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talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave @ 3_."-
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her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers ;y]BXW&l&  
Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with .vov ,J!Y  
Polydor Records. ,8&ND864v  
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Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded 5J2tR6u-(  
her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York fqm-?vy}  
Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five *5z"Xy3J  
days under live conditions, with a group of musicians q c DJ  
organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was fl+dL#]  
released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November 9R3YUW}s  
2007 in the United States and Japan. 2*pNIc  
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At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through N?l  
Germany and the United States. On her American tour she b~Un=-@5a  
performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January qk_YFR?R  
2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, XFi!=|F  
and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig #4Ltw,b^  
Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June H
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2008 the singer started her second tour through the /L; c -^  
United States and Canada. V2o1~R~  
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On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second zOn%\  
album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in % '&_Po
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Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She Gq =i-I  
is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band Noi+mL  
includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell owe6ge7m  
(guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson Q60'5Wt  
(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine 60X ))MyN  
Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and d37|o3oC  
composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and 3Bbd2[<W  
will be released at the end of September 2008 by n0vhc;d  
Universal Music France. ={B?hjo<-
 
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曲目列表： -:|t^RM;FT  
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1. I Am Not Afraid 6g 5Lf)yG  
2. Maybe (Ayo Blues) v{O(}@  
3. Slow Slow (Run Run) m/p:W/0L  
4. Love And Hate eD)@:K
  
5. Get Out Of My Way :$^cY>o  
6. Better Days ( P\oLr9  
7. Change ~mk>9Gp  
8. Piece Of Joy n}3fItSJ  
9. Lonely y1t,i. [  
10. Sometimes bq"dKN`  
11. What's This All About ? {(_>A\zi  
12. Mother Z3N^)j8  
13. Thank You