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k TV~ 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
8/dx)*JCq 歌手姓名:Ayo
kKqb: 唱片公司:Universal
t\$P*_ 发行日期:2008年10月6日
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Q 推荐指数:4星
k_hV.CV u2G{I? 专辑介绍:
Pu=,L#+F N :4f>S)m At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
WPmH4L>T time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
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to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
E,S[3 + first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
@%7IZg;P6 her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
X0\2q D taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
J4yL"iMt vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
g>m)|o' Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
MM}lW-q; who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
3@qy}Nm in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
k`l={f8C first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
%h}Q f&U_ drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
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xI $pKlF0 . At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
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p?uk|C2 talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
\kDQ[4mGq her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
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CIxa" MW Polydor Records.
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YYN'LF#j her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
1KUM!DUD Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
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(KLhF released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
[v+5|twxpU 2007 in the United States and Japan.
O'Q,;s`uC I&6M{,rnM At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
S,s#D9NU Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
MtVvi6T performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
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>,QCKZH Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
${rWDZ0Z 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
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On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
d>NO}MR album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
P*B@it Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
6.a5%: is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
a6gPJF[Jo includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
4x&Dz0[[S (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
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hJ]Oa7r composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
fI`gF^u( will be released at the end of September 2008 by
d/jP2uuA Universal Music France.
?>U=bA DO* 曲目列表:
Y2XxfZj H7.l)' 1. I Am Not Afraid
s5{=lP 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
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z2t+1In, 4. Love And Hate
po*8WSl9c[ 5. Get Out Of My Way
YmaS,Q- 6. Better Days
(1[59<cg] 7. Change
"E\mj'k 8. Piece Of Joy
y`buY+5l 9. Lonely
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H,L{N'[Xph 12. Mother
U[f00m5{HV 13. Thank You