Ayo

Ayo /ˈɑːj/ is a common Yoruba given name, it can be given to both male and female. Ayo in Yoruba means Joy. Ayo is also a common variation of the word yo.

Ayo and AYO may refer to:

Persons

  • Ayọ, Nigerian-German singer-songwriter
  • Ayo Aderinwale, Nigerian diplomat
  • Ayo Bankole, Nigerian composer
  • Ayo Fayose, Nigerian politician
  • Ayo Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic
  • Ayo Oni, Nigerian politician
  • Ayo Rosiji, Nigerian politician
  • Ayo Shonaiya, Nigerian film producer
  • Ayo, nickname of French Painter, Robert Aillaud, who was born in 1932
  • Ayọ (born 1980), German singer
  • Ay-O (born 1931), Japanese painter from Fluxus
  • Genoveva Añonma, also known as Ayo, (born 1989), Equatoguinean footballer
  • Ayo, American record producer from Orlando, Florida.
  • Places

  • Ayo Rock Formations, a geological feature of the island of Aruba
  • Juan de Ayolas Airport (IATA Code: AYO), in Ayolas, Paraguay
  • Music

    Orchestras

  • AYO Adelaide Youth Orchestra, an Adelaide-based musical youth organisation, known as AYO
  • AYO Australian Youth Orchestra, an Australian national musical youth organisation, known as AYO
  • Ayo! (Mýa song)

    "Ayo!" is a song by American recording artist Mýa. It served as a promotional single for her fourth studio album Liberation (2007) and featured Washington D.C. native DJ Kool. Initially, released as the first intended single from Liberation however though the single failed to pick up as Harrison was going through transitioning from former label Interscope to her current label Universal Motown. The song was written and composed by Harrison, Christopher “Deep” Henderson and Charlie Smalls. It sampled an interpolation from the composition He’s the Wizard written by Charlie Smalls.

    The song received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics comparing the song’s production to TLC’s classic ‘90s album "CrazySexyCool". Ayo! became a minor hit on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart peaking at number seventy. No music video was released for the song due to it not being picked up as a single.

    Background

    Ayo! samples an interpolation of He's The Wizard by Thelma Carpenter from the soundtrack to The Wiz. The Wiz is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which features an entire African American cast. The film starred Diana Ross and Michael Jackson as well as Thelma Carpenter playing the role of Miss One, the Good Witch of the North. The song is sung by Carpenter and The Munchkins when Dorothy Gale (Ross) and Toto arrives in Oz. The song was originally written by Charlie Smalls for the musical and film, so therefore he is credited for the sample recording.

    Ayọ

    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. 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.

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    Thankful Heart

    by: Petra

    Ephesians 5:20
    Words by Bob Hartman and Dino Elefante
    Music by John Elefante
    I have a thankful heart that you have given me
    And it can only come from you
    There is no way to begin to tell you how I feel
    There are no words to express how you've become so real
    Jesus, you've given me so much I can't repay
    I have no offering
    There is no way to begin to tell you how I feel
    There's nothing more I can say and no way to repay
    Your warming touch that melts my heart of stone
    Your steadfast love - I'll never be alone
    I have a thankful heart that you have given me
    And it can only come from you
    I have a thankful heart; words don't come easily
    But I am sure you can see my thankful heart
    Help me be a man of God
    A man who's after Your own heart
    Help me show my gratitude




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