Arooj Aftab—Pakistani-born, Brooklyn-based singer/composer—fuses Urdu poetry, South Asian classical and jazz into a hypnotic “global soul.” The first Pakistani woman to win a GRAMMY (2022, “Mohabbat”), she followed breakthrough Vulture Prince with the trio set Love in Exile (with Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily) and 2024’s Night Reign.