Ayo-Gravity_At_Last-2008-DOWNONMYKNEES

ARTIST : Ayo

TITLE : Gravity At Last

LABEL : Universal

GENRE : Soul

BITRATE : 166 kbps avg

SOURCE : CD (LP)

PLAYTIME : 00:48:11

SIZE : 60.6MB

STORE DATE : 2008-00-00Track List

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1. I Am Not Afraid 3:35

2. Maybe (Ayo Blues) 3:28

3. Slow Slow (Run Run) 3:29

4. Love And Hate 3:45

5. Get Out Of My Way 2:46

6. Better Days 3:32

7. Change 3:11

8. Piece Of Joy 3:38

9. Lonely 4:15

10. Sometimes 3:36

11. What's This All About ? 3:21

12. Mother 5:29

13. Thank You 4:06At the age of six Ayo. played the violin for a short

time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself

to play the guitar. When she was about 15, she wrote her

first song, which was about her mother, and which helped

her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical

taste was influenced by her father's large selection of

vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny

Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father,

who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering

in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a

first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to

drop out of school at the age of eighteen.



At twenty-one Ayo. moved to London and later lived in

Paris and New York. During her time in Paris her musical

talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave

her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers

Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with

Polydor Records.



Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded

her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York

Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five

days under live conditions, with a group of musicians

organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was

released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea and in November

2007 in the United States and Japan.



At the end of 2007 Ayo. started a concert tour through

Germany and the United States. On her American tour she

performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January

2008 she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman,

and on January 26, 2008 the Late Late Show with Craig

Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June

2008 the singer started her second tour through the

United States and Canada.



On 10 March 2008 Ayo. started recording on her second

album Gravity At Last at the Compass Point Studios in

Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She

is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band

includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell

(guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson

(keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine

Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks written and

composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and

will be released at the end of September 2008 by

Universal Music France.