Grammys 2022: Arooj Aftab becomes first Pakistani woman to win a Grammy

Brooklyn-based Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab is on cloud nine.

She has bagged her first-ever Grammy, becoming the first Pakistani woman to receive the prestigious trophy.

Arooj won the award for her song 'Mohabbat' in the Best Global Performance category.

Taking to Instagram, the singer shared few pictures from the gala and wrote that she is so proud of this moment personally as they 'celebrated music as a collective genre'.

Born to Pakistani parents in Saudi Arabia, Arooj spent her teenage years in Lahore before relocating to Boston in 2005 to study musical production and engineering at the prestigious Berklee School of Music.

The singer released her first album 'Bird Under Water' in 2014. The 37-year-old has been steadily gaining global attention for her work that fuses ancient Sufi traditions with inflections of folk, jazz, and minimalism.

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