The genre-crossing songwriter’s introspective “Vulture Prince” was a pandemic hit. Now she is returning with “Night Reign,” an LP that reveals her many dimensions. By Sam Sodomsky In a remote studio ...

Arooj Aftab is a nocturnal creature by preference. It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon — Aftab is dressed in black and wears dark sunglasses — and we’re sitting outside a café on the BedStuy-Bushwick border ...

The South Asian raat ki rani flower blooms on the hottest nights of summer. The tiny white petals punctuate the darkness and fill it with a thick jasmine-like scent that seeps through the windows of ...

An Arooj Aftab performance is filled with “little secrets,” she tells Vogue. The Grammy-winning Pakistani artist blends jazz, folk, and electronics with traditional South Asian vocal techniques and ...

Night Reign is the follow up to Aftab’s critically acclaimed label debut Vulture Prince. To commemorate the single release, today Aftab is the featured artist on Apple Music’s New Music Daily. Last ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy winner Arooj Aftab about finding musical inspiration in the words of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet Rumi and about how her Pakistani heritage informs her work.

While some Pakistanis view Arooj Aftab as elite, others think she is trying too hard to fit into New York City culture, ...

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, ...

This is part of a series of features from All Things Considered on first-time Grammy nominees, ahead of the April 3 awards. You can read and listen to the profiles on Saweetie, Jimmie Allen and Barlow ...