C)| {7W [)&( zJHX 专辑名称：Gravity At Last
9?xc3F2EBD 歌手姓名：Ayo
J6 VG j=/ 唱片公司：Universal
,9:0T LLR 发行日期：2008年10月6日
!U2Wiks 专辑流派：Soul/Folk
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Z@L 推荐指数：4星
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专辑介绍：
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At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
;| :^zo time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
l$s8O0-'T to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
] _ON\v1 first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
jPjFp35;zb her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
Gpauy=4f taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
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[0>wEq vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
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pxs#OP who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
6,*o;<k[ in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
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first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
qrj:H4#VB drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
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X8Xw' Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
e u F@SS talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
i8tH0w/(M her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
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, Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
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\* C}[D her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
B[]v[q< Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
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)T=cd organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
c&Mci"n j0 released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
<Q4yN!6 2007 in the United States and Japan.
M=57 d7 xlqh,?'>W At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
gX}(6RP_! Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
k-v@sb24_ performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
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lh2 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
} #[MV+D and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
@q?zh'@; Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
| 'SqG}h 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
%lw!4Z\gg United States and Canada.
fNV Nx~E }}";)}C` On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
::\7s album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
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+%$'( t s is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
'g8~ uP includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
VQr)VU=jb (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
%|l^oC+E (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
cG|ihG5) Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
rUX1Iu7 composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
: -@o3Syg will be released at the end of September 2008 by
&></l| hY Universal Music France.
Nw`}iR0i N 798(" 曲目列表：
HWFI6N hw?'aX K{ 1. I Am Not Afraid
nVqFCBB 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
J?\z{ ;qa 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
C:77~f-+rQ 4. Love And Hate
RO-ABFEi( 5. Get Out Of My Way
#]ZOi`; 6. Better Days
^^[MDjNy@ 7. Change
FFH9 $>A 8. Piece Of Joy
fr~e!!$H 9. Lonely
7/.- dfEK 10. Sometimes
\de82 4 11. What's This All About ?
p?OwcMT]M 12. Mother
d($f8{~W 13. Thank You
