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

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专辑名称：Gravity At Last )rTV}Hk  
歌手姓名：Ayo Ighd,G-  
唱片公司：Universal se)vi;J7K  
发行日期：2008年10月6日 q@i,$R  
专辑流派：Soul/Folk 5,0fL  
推荐指数：4星  vj+x
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专辑介绍： `|1#Vuk  
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At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short >&|C E2'  
time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself _7AR2  
to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her )>]~Y  
first song, which was about her mother, and which helped Wb_'X |"u  
her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical a]<y*N?qu  
taste was influenced by her father's large selection of o2FQ/EIE  
vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny E6{|zF/3'  
Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father, 5AWIk,[  
who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering 4v"9I(  
in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a <Ct b
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first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to 
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drop out of school at the age of eighteen. Xgge_`T9  
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At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in Fu*~{n  
Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical ? F@0"qi  
talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave hcvWf\4'#q  
her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers r*|#*"K"a  
Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with ay\e#)  
Polydor Records. ?I6us X9$  
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Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded BcMgfa/  
her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York %"2;i@  
Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five ;TAf[[P  
days under live conditions, with a group of musicians HQ8oOn
 
organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was H1]An'qz,  
released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November O<&8gk~  
2007 in the United States and Japan. *(%]|z}]m  
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At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through )Q_^f'4  
Germany and the United States. On her American tour she hJavi>374  
performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January t;7 tuq   
2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, v-;j44sB  
and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig JmJ8s hq  
Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June y#'|=0vTvP  
2008 the singer started her second tour through the V^a]@GK:  
United States and Canada. LV4]YC  
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On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second _;] 3w  
album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in !2)$lM1@J  
Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She SjT8eH #  
is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band :27GqY,3sK  
includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell 5",@!1ju  
(guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson '!)|;qe  
(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine 9sQ4 $  
Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and > .L\>  
composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and 1 m)WM,L  
will be released at the end of September 2008 by >tfy\PY:  
Universal Music France. %!5[3b'h  
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曲目列表： IXp(Aeb  
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1. I Am Not Afraid |IbCN  
2. Maybe (Ayo Blues) ?mdgY1  
3. Slow Slow (Run Run) a#iJXI  
4. Love And Hate qNI2+<u)j  
5. Get Out Of My Way ('qu#.'  
6. Better Days S]kY'(V(*  
7. Change J2\%rb,  
8. Piece Of Joy (nWi9(}J  
9. Lonely ~_SoP  
10. Sometimes H"_ZqEg  
11. What's This All About ? /Ulv/Thl  
12. Mother 4ZY0!'be-R  
13. Thank You