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

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专辑名称：Gravity At Last EZu  
歌手姓名：Ayo -^SD6l$  
唱片公司：Universal EzY scX.[  
发行日期：2008年10月6日 n B|C-.F  
专辑流派：Soul/Folk :[$i~V  
推荐指数：4星 K`AW?p^$Y  
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专辑介绍： _ZvX"{ y~  
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At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short a6K$omu  
time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself q=i,'.nS  
to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her LnACce ?b  
first song, which was about her mother, and which helped uma9yIk  
her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical &b#NF1Q.  
taste was influenced by her father's large selection of @rDv (W  
vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny 8i+jFSZ
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Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father, #IciNCIrG  
who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering JjL0/&  
in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a Y_ u7 0@`  
first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to kv`3Y0R-"  
drop out of school at the age of eighteen. ;:K?7wfXn  
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At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in 
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Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical J5r L7  
talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave ,HjHt\!~<  
her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers {~ vPq  
Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with B\~3p4S  
Polydor Records. m0K2p~  
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Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded cVt$#A)  
her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York @eD2<e  
Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five YJ;a{)e  
days under live conditions, with a group of musicians [O =)FiY-  
organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was '"NdT7*+  
released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November gcY~_'&u  
2007 in the United States and Japan. k1  txY  
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At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through .m % x-i  
Germany and the United States. On her American tour she 6(RqR  
performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January MDXQj5s^  
2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, PfMOc+ q  
and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig 7B>cmi  
Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June |x~ei_x7.p  
2008 the singer started her second tour through the _O'rZ5}&  
United States and Canada. Lzb [%?  
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On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second Xv;ZAa  
album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in A
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Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She LHGK!zI  
is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band zK ]%qv]  
includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell fxCPGj  
(guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson SX94,5 _Q  
(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine 4rCqN.J  
Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and qv >(  
composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and O
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will be released at the end of September 2008 by dXy"yQ>{  
Universal Music France. `rFGSq$9  
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曲目列表： JL+[1=uE1L  
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1. I Am Not Afraid Ib
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2. Maybe (Ayo Blues) * v-xC5L1\  
3. Slow Slow (Run Run) GAe_Z(T  
4. Love And Hate 2H0q\zZ  
5. Get Out Of My Way 6O?Sr,  
6. Better Days +(hwe jyC  
7. Change eh# (}v  
8. Piece Of Joy |zegnq~  
9. Lonely v}t:}M<;  
10. Sometimes n!,TBCNX  
11. What's This All About ? )=y6s^}  
12. Mother 04LVa|Y@U  
13. Thank You