A Child of the First Liberian Civil War, Singer-Songwriter Mon Rovîa Plants His Roots in Tennessee

The only member of his family to escape the war, his siblings and grandmother stayed in Monrovia. “Young boys, child soldiers that turned from a war that came to live with us.” Lowe eventually went back to Monrovia when he was around 10 or 11, during the Second Civil War. I hadn’t seen many people in those times that looked like me playing folk music.” While he didn’t get much traction with his rap on SoundCloud, his Afro-Appalachian folk music on TikTok did, gaining him more than 300,000 followers in one year.