The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

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, ...

Arooj Aftab has had quite a year, releasing the gorgeous, tranquil Vulture Prince back in April, and it’s gone on to be one of the most acclaimed albums of the year, making Best of 2021 lists from ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab dedicated her most recent album to spaces that don’t exist anymore. Blending together traditional Sufi Muslim and Hidustani classical sounds with folk, jazz and ...

Though the differences between best new artist nominee Arooj Aftab and the nine other musicians up for the coveted Grammy award are apparent — Aftab sings mostly in Urdu on her 2021 album “Vulture ...

When Arooj Aftab was in high school, she taught herself to play guitar, recorded herself singing covers, and posted videos of her at-home performances on the Internet. From her bedroom in Lahore, ...

Arooj Aftab has won her first-ever Grammy. Her rendition of “Mohabbat” just took home the prize for Best Global Music Performance at the 2022 Grammys. The Pakistani composer, who is based in Brooklyn, ...

Though the differences between best new artist nominee Arooj Aftab and the nine other musicians up for the coveted Grammy award are apparent — Aftab sings mostly in Urdu on her 2021 album “Vulture ...