in 1995 amid rising political unrest in the West African country that eventually boiled over into two civil wars in the 2000s. His life in the United States began in New York and then Delaware, before landing in Nashville, where he now lives.
“Almost all the time he was complaining, ‘I’m gonna go home,’ knowing that home was not peaceful,” Peter One says on a Zoom call from an Indiana tour stop where he’s opening for. “I kept telling him, ‘It’s not the right time. Let the country come back to normal. In the meantime, take time to prepare. Because home is not what you have left. Home is different now.”’
Peter One lost touch with his friend for a few months, only to learn some heartbreaking news — the man had died shortly after returning to Côte D’Ivoire. “I was so shocked, I was really, really shocked,” he says. “To me, it’s like he knew that it was almost the end for him.” “Birds Go Die Out of Sight” could almost be mistaken for an upbeat song by the way its buoyant, countryish acoustic guitar riff and lilting rhythm transform Peter One’s impassioned pleas to his friend. “Hold your horses, brother/Don’t you go/Can’t you see, things have changed and you have changed,” he sings, withPeter One may be gearing up for his major-label debut in the United States, but he had a period of fame in western Africa, particularly in francophone countries, in the 1980s.
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