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Born in Riyadh to music-loving diplomats (whom she praises as “cool cats”) and raised in Lahore, Arooj Aftab studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston; she now lives in Brooklyn. She worked in relative obscurity (an Emmy for documentary editing notwithstanding) for years before her 2021 album Vulture Prince gave wings to her career. Its mixture of jazz introspection and her commanding, controlled singing struck a chord with audiences who might never usually listen to music that she…
