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;N BKiyog 专辑名称:Gravity At Last
@qszwQav$ 歌手姓名:Ayo
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JjD'2"z 发行日期:2008年10月6日
Stw%OP@? 专辑流派:Soul/Folk
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sBsf{%I[{ L)0j& 专辑介绍:
Kbdjd p A7|CG[wZ At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short
7q%<JZPY time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself
Py&DnG'H to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her
A,P_| first song, which was about her mother, and which helped
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,wyfMOGLt taste was influenced by her father's large selection of
]8Eci^i vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny
LjE@[@d Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,
7W{xK'|] who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering
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m'L7K K-Y) first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to
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6m=FWw3y YY&3M At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in
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dG}.T_l talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave
(|{b ZW} her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers
h1y6`m9 Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with
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~miRnW*x m]Sv>| Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded
Up(Jw-. her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York
.U66Uet>RX Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five
*=6,}rX"I days under live conditions, with a group of musicians
"Yk3K^`1T. organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was
ndsu}:my released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November
|o:[*2- 2007 in the United States and Japan.
d1MVhE nA!Xb'y& At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through
WWO@ULGY Germany and the United States. On her American tour she
4. &t performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January
7c:5Ey 2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,
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.szs? Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June
N|pyp*8Z 2008 the singer started her second tour through the
?pT\Ft V United States and Canada.
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\Ty%E< album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in
&"90pBGK Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She
7R$]BY= is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band
oEqt7l[I{ includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell
UUxDW3K (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson
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(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine
fP>K!@!8 Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and
hBSci|*f composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and
Cq7EdK;x will be released at the end of September 2008 by
EW* 's( Universal Music France.
|JpLMUG \#bk$R@ 曲目列表:
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`$US;5 u&iMY3= 1. I Am Not Afraid
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pGZI697 3. Slow Slow (Run Run)
1|za>N6[yu 4. Love And Hate
ZMSP8(V 5. Get Out Of My Way
DA[s k7 6. Better Days
~Wq[H 7. Change
U]!D=+ 8. Piece Of Joy
Az_s"}G 9. Lonely
WcyN,5 10. Sometimes
H];QDix? 11. What's This All About ?
fP41B 12. Mother
4\%0a,\^ 13. Thank You