The Brooklyn-based musician became the first Pakistani artist to win a Grammy when she picked up the Best Global Music Performance award for ‘Mohabbat’ from her 2021 album, ‘Vultu…
Earlier this year, Brooklyn-based musician Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani artist to win a Grammy when she picked up the Best Global Music Performance award for “Mohabbat” from her 2021 album, “Vulture Prince.” She was also nominated in the Best New Artist category.
Much of Aftab’s work is sung in Urdu, which makes the Best New Artist nomination even more notable as the popularity of songs sung in languages other than English grows in the U.S. “The popularity of people like Rosalía and Bad Bunny and J Balvin and all the K-pop groups, it’s really changed the energy a little bit,” says Aftab, crediting Gen Z’s open-mindedness as part of this shift towards global music. “They’re doing away with these older limitations, really,” says Aftab.
On “Vulture Prince,” Aftab produced all of the songs, in addition to composing them. “I was world-building and I let all of my musical neuroses free and I had a really good time,” says Aftab. “As an artist grows over time, they become more and more confident and this was my producer hat flex, to really create a beautiful, sonic space with all the instruments.”
“I don’t feel like I have to follow any particular thing or pay homage to any particular one thing,” Aftab adds. “The lines are blurry for me, which is great. It gives me a lot of freedom musically. It must come from that, that feeling of not really belonging to one particular place and belonging to many different places.”
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