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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with musician Peter One about starting from scratch in Nashville after a successful career in Côte d'Ivoire and his first album in decades Come Back to Me.

Spinning The Globe is a monthly column here at Paste that takes stock of the amazing music being released or reissued by artists that fall well outside the Western pop landscape. Each edition will highlight a diverse array of performers, from names that will be immediately familiar to longtime listeners of so-called “world music” and those lesser-known figures and groups keeping the traditions of their home country alive or pushing traditional music in new, exciting directions.

Peter One's new album, 'Come Back to Me'—his first in 30 years— is a journey from start to finish, a journey home.

The Ivory Coast-born, Nashville-based country-folk hero Peter One's first album in 30 years, Come Back To Me, arrives May 5 via Verve. Listen to an exclusive premiere of "Sweet Rainbow."

Catching up with the Ivory Coast-born, longtime Nashvillian musician ahead of his new solo LP

The 67-year-old Ivory Coast-born musician was a star in his heyday but political and economic unrest forced him into a life out of the spotlight. Now, he’s making a comeback

This past Friday, Jack Harlow released a brief rappity-rap album that almost functioned as an apology for the weak-sauce pop-rap album that he released a year ago. Except it wasn’t an apology. Popular rappers never apologize. Harlow kicked off a round of weekend Twitter discourse when he called himself “the hardest white boy since the one who rapped about vomit and sweaters,” but the record’s real what-the-fuck moment came later, when Harlow rapped defensively about the e...

For decades, one of West Africa's most popular musicians has lived a quiet, unassuming life in the U.S.—but that's about to change

May will see the release of a new album by Nashville artist Peter One. But to call him simply a Nashville artist doesn’t tell you the half of it. And though…

Peter One makes the PBS Newshour with his Afro-country career in Nashville.