Mon Rovîa Offers Folk Hymns for the Displaced

Bloodline, the debut album from the Chattanooga-based, Liberian-born artist, is a chillingly tender body of work.

“REMEMBER, LIFE DOES not have to end with suffering,” writes Janjay Lowe in an Instagram caption promoting his latest album Bloodline. Performing under the moniker Mon Rovîa, the Chattanooga-based folk singer’s debut is a chillingly tender body of work. Tapping into the storytelling of his lineage through the sounds of his adoptive home, every strum, chord progression, and harmony is a cultural exchange.

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