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bUNp>H>L 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
>KJ]\`2>)c 歌手姓名:Ayo
?}.(k/ 唱片公司:Universal
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_XX 发行日期:2008年10月6日
zoU.\]#C 专辑流派:Soul/Folk
!p$V7pFu6 推荐指数:4星
Yu=^`I N>_7Ltw/ 专辑介绍:
ia[wVxd B$G8,3 ,: At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
P?F:x=@'| time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
Zl)|x%z to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
1N&U{#4 first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
JcP'+@X" her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical
Jz6PqU|= taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
7blZAA?- vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
1 /`>Eh Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
Dcf`+?3 who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
#LZ`kSlv4 in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a
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tkmW\ drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
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"- !Zrvko At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
\ gN) GR Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical
c?d#Bj ? talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
TJ<PT her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
?cJ$= Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
<KpQu%2( Polydor Records.
y.Py>GJJ1S bu.36\78 Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
;"3Mm$ her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
,#A,+!4 Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
) E\pQ5& days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
VXa]L4jJ9 organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
1#V0g Q released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
<j>@Fg#q 2007 in the United States and Japan.
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2)m #[8gH>7 At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
(R,eWWF8~ Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
?OSd8E+itM performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
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/H)g<YA and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig
>@X=E3 Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
1;h>^NOq 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
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United States and Canada.
\=@}(<4 5FMKJ7sC9 On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second
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Yf%n>j album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
X}ZOjX! Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
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g^idS:GtX5 includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
LCG< (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
%bsdC0xM (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
5q<kt{06\ Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
JsC0^A;fM composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
oTL "]3`' will be released at the end of September 2008 by
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- Universal Music France.
..!yf e"5 %[0"[ <1a 曲目列表:
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xP6#8*: AIeYy-f 1. I Am Not Afraid
\8pbPo=x 2. Maybe (Ayo Blues)
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5. Get Out Of My Way
aH6pys!O 6. Better Days
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7. Change
<[q)2 5RL 8. Piece Of Joy
kO4C^pl"v 9. Lonely
~7m+cWC-+ 10. Sometimes
CR/LV]G 11. What's This All About ?
eD}Ga4 12. Mother
T:-Uy&pBEN 13. Thank You