Petersolo

Born in 1972 in the village of Aného-Glidji-Agbomé, near the Togolese capital of Lomé, Peter Solo spent his youth immersed in the cultural traditions of his country and the Guin-Mina tribe. His parents passed on voodoo culture to him, and by the age of 13, two years after the death of his father and mother, he was making his own guitar from makeshift objects. At the age of 16, he joined his first band as a guitarist, before taking up percussion. As if his destiny had been mapped out for him, as an adult he turned to an artistic and musical career, initially as a musician for African music stars such as Papa Wemba, Myriam Makeba and Gnonas Pedro. In 1998, he released his first solo album, Sodabi Agbana, to immediate acclaim from listeners and critics alike, who named him Togo's best artist that same year. Moving to London in the late 1990s, he immersed himself in gospel culture and opened up to new aesthetic approaches. After working as a musician for a number of groups, Peter Solo settled in France, where he set up a band, Kakarako, and produced a second album, Miadome. Influenced by the traditional music of his childhood, such as Afrobeat and reggae, Solo deploys his vast technical palette. After a third album, Analog Vodoo, released in 2011, the Togolese formed a new group with six musicians from Lyon: Vaudou Game. Fully dedicated to this new group, which will release four albums between 2014 and 2021 and perform at the Transmusicales de Rennes, Peter Solo continues to promote Togo's beloved voodoo culture internationally.