Mommy Brain

About three months ago, I held a giveaway for this CD. Andrea at Atypicalife won, but last week I had to send her an e-mail apologizing, because I still hadn’t received the CD from the company sponsoring the giveaway. Guess what? It showed up in today’s mail - along with two other copies! Since Ayo’s music isn’t really my style, I now have two extra copies to give away. Andrea, yours will be going in the mail as soon as I’m sufficiently recovered from the flu to brave the 16 degrees (F) weather to go to the post office. Actually, it would be nice to only make one trip, so let’s do the giveaway like this: if you’re interested in winning one of the other two copies, please leave a comment here by Saturday morning. I’ll randomly draw two more winners, and that should give us sufficient time to trade e-mails with mailing info. Here’s the original info on the CD, with some links where you can listen to samples and see if you’re interested:

Ayo is a supremely talented artist. She broke through in Europe last summer with the hit single “Down On My Knees”, followed by her Platinum album Joyful, produced by Jay Newland (Norah Jones). She has since rapidly conquered such diverse markets as France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Argentina, Korea and Australia .

Ayo was born of a Nigerian father and a Romanian Gypsy mother. She was discovered in New York and was signed worldwide by Polydor France (Universal/Interscope in the U.S).

Ayo is being compared to everyone from Sade to Stevie Wonder, to Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading and even Otis Redding, but Ayo is Ayo. Her songs are very ‘personal’ and her audience hits all age categories evenly, from very young to mature.

Check out Ayo’s official web site, listen to some samples of her songs here and here, and then leave me a comment if you would like to win a copy of her upcoming CD Joyful.