- Ayo( Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin )【 6 albums 73 lyrics 】
- Ayọ (born as Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin, 14 September 1980) is a Nigerian-German singer-songwriter and actress. She uses the Yoruba translation Ayọ or Ayo. of her first name Joy.
Her debut album Joyful, which was first released in 2006, reached Double-Platinum status in France, Platinum in Germany and Poland, Gold status in Switzerland and Italy and Greece. The album was released in the United States on 20 November 2007 by Interscope Records.
Ayọ was born in Frechen near Cologne, Germany. She has a son, Nile, who was born in late 2005 and a daughter, Billie-Eve, born July 2010, with the Afro-German reggae singer Patrice, from whom she is now separated. In March 2017 her third child, Jimi-Julius, was born. At the end of 2007, she moved with her family to the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan in New York City. At present she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her children.
Then-president of UNICEF France, Jacques Hintzy, announced on 4 February 2009 that the singer was named patron of UNICEF to promote the right to education for all children in the world.
The French production company MK2 produced 2009 the film Ayo Joy a 90-minute documentary about the singer and her life. The film was directed by Raphaël Duroy. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
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Ticket to the World
2013
1.Fire
2.I'm Walking
3.Teach Love
4.Justice
5.Fallin'
6.Complain
7.Who
8.I Wonder9.Ticket to the World
10.Hullabaloo
11.Sister
12.Would'nt It Be Better
13.I Need You
14.Milky Way
15.Sunny
16.Fire (feat. Youssoupha) -
Billie-Eve
2011
1.I'm Gonna Dance
2.How Many People
3.Black Spoon
4.I Can't
5.Flowers
6.Real Love
7.Julia
8.My Man9.It's Too Late
10.Who Are They?
11.We Have Got To
12.Before
13.It Hurts
14.Believe
15.I Want You Back
16.I'm Sorry -
Gravity At Last
2008
1.I Am Not Afraid
2.Maybe (Ayo Blues)
3.Slow Slow (Run Run)
4.Love And Hate
5.Get Out Of My Way
6.Better Days
7.Change8.Piece Of Joy
9.Lonely
10.Sometimes
11.What's This All About?
12.Mother
13.Thank You
14.Sometimes (Home Acoustic) -
Live At The Olympia
2007
1.Only You - Live At L'Olympia
2.Watching You
3.Life Is Real
4.Neva Been
5.Help Is Coming
6.Only You
7.Letter By Letter8.Without You
9.Neva Been - Live At L'Olympia
10.Down On My Knees - Live At L'Olympia
11.Watching You - Live At L'Olympia
12.And It'S Supposed To Be Love - Live At L'Olympia
13.Help Is Coming - Live At L'Olympia
14.What Is Love? - Live At L'Olympia -
Joyful
2006
1.Down on My Knees
2.How Many Times?3.These Days -
Miscellaneous
1.And It's Supposed to Be Love
2.What Is Love?
3.Letter by Letter
4.Slow, Slow
5.Gudinnor6.Telefonterror
7.And It's Supposed to Be Love (Radio Edit)
8.I'm a Fool
9.Paname
10.Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
【Correction of errors in the album information】