Re-issue: Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat
One of the songs I keep coming back to is \u201cMohabbat\u201d by Arooj Aftab. It\u2019s really special to me. I listen to it all the time. I\u2019ve been listening to it so often that I wanted to revisit Arooj's episode about it. In the time since the episode has come out, she has released a collaborative album with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily called Love In Exile, which got two Grammy nominations. And she has a new album that\u2019s about to come out on May 31st, called Night Reign. Here\u2019s her episode:\xa0
Arooj Aftab is a singer and composer based in Brooklyn. She grew up in Saudi Arabia, but her family is from Pakistan. And earlier this year, she made history by becoming the first Pakistani artist to win a Grammy. Her song, \u201cMohabbat" won the Best Global Music Performance Grammy, and she was nominated for Best New Artist. "Mohabbat" was first released on her 2021 album, Vulture Prince, but it\u2019s been a part of Arooj\u2019s life for a long time . In this episode, she tells the story of how the song was first born, and how it lived with her and evolved over the years before she finally recorded it.
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