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NIGHT REIGN - album OUT NOW.
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A highly competitive category, full of highly respected legendary nominees. I am humbled and grateful for this win. Making a deeply personal and crossover music, in Urdu, and being seen for it… feels like a breakthrough. thank you AND congratulations ❤️
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Touring has been amazing. We headlined a ton, had massive turnouts and have proven ourselves in all the markets. Yet still, running 10s of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s “normal”. Why is this normal. This should not be normalized.
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Pakistani female musicians taking turns lighting up Times Square through
@spotify
equal campaign and I am fully entirely LOVING IT.
@Hadiqa_Kiani
is a Pakistani pop legend 🔥🔥🔥
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Open call for white European journalists to observe my music further than a means to meditate
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Wowwww thank you
With so many folks getting together with family and friends, there’s a lot to celebrate this summer. Here’s a playlist of songs I’ve been listening to lately—it's a mix of old and new, household names and emerging artists, and a whole lot in between.
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Pakistani singer arooj aftab…… Urdu singer arooj aftab….. arooj Aftab’s amazing Urdu singing… like. It’s fine I guess? But can a person of color musician ever just get to be without this tag to whatever someone else is presuming is our root or heritage
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And shaming artists when they advocate for themselves and for better fees is one of the worst socially normalized things in the industry and I refuse.
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This music platform is super important to my Pakistani and South Asian diaspora music enthusiasts. So this year you’ll see me sharing the love 🇵🇰❤️🌹
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This is after artists already lost so much income during Covid. Now post covid flights fuel visas taxes and hotel prices are outrageous, promoters afraid to raise ticket prices, audiences still nervous to go out… what a fking mess and we are expected to take the hit
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So tired of journalists just casually unloading their cultural imperialism, Islamophobia, problematic white feminist views and straight up ignorance into me just because I am a Pakistani woman. Can they please do better. How do we make this happen
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Hugely honored to receive the Presidents Pride of Performance Award today wowwww thank you Mr.President
@ArifAlvi
and H.E US ambassador
@Masood__Khan
for the nomination
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Outrageous and unapologetic racist remarks towards three brown musicians creating in a contemporary idiom. This is what journalism is passing as in 2023. Grotesque
@DownBeatMag
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FIRST SINGLE of the new project is out tomorrowwwww TOMORROWWW
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President Biden earns a sunnat on EID by giving a thirsty me some water 😄
@POTUS
#EidMubarak
#WhiteHouse
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Todayyy I’m happy to tell you that my new album is called NIGHT REIGN and the first single RAAT KI RANI will be out in a week!
Pre-save:
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Pitchfork changed my life. The folks there listened to the music, fell in love with it hard, and unapologetically put us all the way up. Thank you ✨✨✨ and thank you
@senari
majorly
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My fifth studio album, Night Reign, is coming on May 31st.
Pre-order now: .
Photography: Kate Sterlin
Cover Design: Symrin / Studio Ru
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Two Indian friends came over, laid eyes on the Grammy, and immediately proceeded to grab pears from the coffee table and arrange them around the award like an offering - hands down the most epic thing anyone with a Hindu background has done in this Muslim background house
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pushing back on being ONLY allowed to exist in a geographic and linguistic context. This makes it easy for them to other-ize, exclude us and overlook what is achieved, and to gate keep/ glass wall what is further achievable.
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For YOUR considerationnnnn Grammy voting members please bless me on BEST NEW ARTIST, BEST GLOBAL MUSIC and more ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Journalists are politely invited to take their piece to venues, promoters, business managers, labels, artist managers first. Not you guys asking the artist to do even more work now wanting us to explain in detail how broken the system is ❤️🩹🙈
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First single from Love In Exile, a collaborative work with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily is Out NOW
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My new record Night Reign has many secrets - one of them is that
@ElvisCostello
plays on track 6! With songs like She and Spooky Girlfriend on heavy rotation, I've been a fan of his since 1991!!! Hear Elvis talk about discovering my music and becoming very special friends.
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When this new Nusrat album drops trust me I will be blasting it from my spot in Brooklyn
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OUT NOW ✨✨The music video for “Raat Ki Rani” by
@arooj_aftab
. Directed by
@TessaThompson_x
, available anywhere you get your music. Listen. Watch. Enjoy.
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At peak self, I would say I am here.
NIGHT REIGN is out now on all platforms.
My favorite tunes are the opener “Aey Nehin” with lyrics by
@YasraRizvi
and the closer “Zameen” ft.
@CHOCGENINC
✨✨✨
📸 Kate Sterlin
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Oh fuckkk this tweet really awakened the “she’s anti Pakistani!!!” sentiment. Great. I’m not talking about erasing or disowning roots and heritage. while touring eu/uk at the moment, I feel like pushing back…
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Dressed for the gold via
@StyledbyPhil
combining
#payalkhandwala
(coat)
#hussainrehar
(pants)
@LanderosMichel
(shirt) and
@EricksonBeamon
brooch 🔥🔥💜
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“Arooj aftab and bad bunny” has a nice ring to it
This year's Grammy Awards included two new awards: Best Global Music Performance and Best Música Urbana Album, won by Arooj Aftab and Bad Bunny, respectively
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Tourrrrr startsssss nowwww first headed to Metz france! Also sorry we’re not playing Ireland or cyprus this time
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BEST NEW MUSICCC
.
@Arooj_Aftab
,
@VijayIyer
, and Shahzad Ismaily's Love in Exile is named Best New Music 🏆
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I am BEYOND EXCITRD to perform my nominated song Udhero Na with the goddess
@ShankarAnoushka
at
#GRAMMYPremiere
#GRAMMYs
🎶 We're thrilled to announce that current
#GRAMMYs
nominee
@arooj_aftab
will be performing at the
#GRAMMYPremiere
Ceremony this year!
Tune in to the livestream on Feb. 5th at 12:30 PM PT on and Recording Academy YouTube channel:
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Bye friends, love and cat. Also bye bye sleep probably. BUT IM HYPE TO SEE YOU ALLL OUT THERE (poster by
@tanialili
)
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Amoeba let me loose in the store and it was amazing
New "What's In My Bag?" episode with
@arooj_aftab
!
The Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer, singer, and producer goes shopping at
@AmoebaSF
for records by Max Roach, Billie Holiday,
@OfficialJDilla1
& more. Check out what she found!
Watch 👉
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Coachella weekend 1 is HEREEEE and I am soooo excited!! Catch us 2pm at gobi pavilionnnnn
@coachella
#Coachella2022
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a release i have been looking forward to SO MUCH, is right around the corner! .
@backbonegame
@eggnutohmygod
@RawFury
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I update this (playlist of my fav Pakistani songs by female artists) from time to time- pakistani baelist
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25 years in a post-Nusrat world
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Sadly I will not be performing at the millennium stage in Chicago this Monday thanks to a mean case of Covid. Sorry guys I was really looking forward to it :(
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The Night is my friend
The peerless New York-based Pakistani musician is ready to move past grief and to make some connections, to have some fun, she tells
@Madame_George
The Night Becomes a Great Friend:
@arooj_aftab
Interviewed
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Arooj Aftab receives prestigious award
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Getting someone an apple pie from McDonald’s as a surprise has got to be some kind of love language
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Verve family!!!!
Verve Records is thrilled to sign
@arooj_aftab
! Arooj’s remarkable year of global recognition has culminated in 2 GRAMMY® Award Nominations: Best Global Music Performance & Best New Artist. Listen to her breakthrough album "Vulture Prince"
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UDHERO NA FEAT. ANOUSHKA SHANKAR for your Grammy voting consideration in the Best Global Music Performance category !!! Light it uppp
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Alright worst idea ever but here goes AMA tomorrow June 8th at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Reddit at r/indieheads SEE YOU THERE
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Me booking more shows despite my tour debt rant
A chimpanzee who ran away from a Ukrainian zoo was talked into returning after zookeepers offered her a raincoat, a hug and a bike ride.
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Seeing you tonight in hollywooood !! After party location recs below plzzz
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Tonight we perform at the renowned UK book festival Hay on Wye! At this point in my life for some reason I find myself quite post-literate aka I don’t read anymore, but for the occasion, here are some books I have loved that you should seek out…
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I’ve closed replies on this thread now. I am proud of my roots and heritage deeply and I am very protective of them. This tweet was about western prejudices. My opinions are bold and important. I am being misunderstood, that is all.
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Coachella make some noiseeee 🌴🌴🌴 that was an awesome couple of weekends. Everyone is amazing!!! What a beautiful festival
@coachella
thanks and see you again sooon ❤️
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Best album review so far
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What patterns and pieces will break open the night mind’s path?
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Anddd it’s OUTTTTT stream my new drop UDHERO NA feat. Anoushka Shankar
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@DownBeatMag
@vijayiyer
@frankalkyer
Frank, we appreciate all the love for this record, but these lines you printed are racist. To not like the record and offer criticism is one thing. But he wrapped it in race by pointing out “diversity”.
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What is the night to you?
@PennBadgley
and I ditz through a game of chess and lay Night Reign out on the table.
Full video on YouTube this Thursday! Link in bio to save and pre order Night Reign. Raat Ki Rani out everywhere now.
Directed and edited by Andrew Oppeneer
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Americans on the plane back from Europe talking about how excited they are to drink regular Coke and complaining that all they got in EU was Coke Zero is like just next level I am done wow
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Today, indulge me with a closer look into the Night Reign vinyl. I wanted the physical component of this record to feel like a gift in your hands because when you buy these, the artist soars.
The folks who built this with me are amazing.
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Old friend, I’ll see you again. under a heavy moon, on this forgotten land.
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let
@arooj_aftab
's melodies transport you in her
#openmic
performance of "mohabbat" 🕯
full:
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Purple flowers for nyc, special guests
@rizwanahmed
and
@vijayiyer
, vulture prince squad- all made for a perfect homecoming show at
@knockdowncenter
(kevin condon photos)
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