Here are a few things you should know about her.

Music has been a large part of her life since she was young

Aftab comes from a family of music-lovers, and many of her earliest memories involve music: her family and friends would host evenings where they talked about their love of music and played songs together. As a result, she felt a deep connection to the art form.

“I think I felt very connected to it from a very early age – the desire to kind of integrate it into my life was becoming stronger and stronger, and I think I do remember being in school and listening to music and using it almost like a friend,” Aftab told Our Culture magazine.

She went viral for a cover of Hallelujah that she sang as a teenager

Due to her passion for music, Aftab decided that she wanted to pursue a degree in it. However, as a young teenager in Pakistan, nobody understood her dream.

“My dad was talking about how some people think that they want to do music but they actually just really like music,” she told Pitchfork.

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But she decided to give it a shot anyway, and recorded a jazzy cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Her song went viral in her native Lahore, and it empowered her to apply to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

She has a degree from Berklee College of Music

Aftab was eventually accepted to Berklee College of Music and moved to Boston. “I had always dreamed of going to Berklee, but it wasn’t until I won a scholarship and began studying music online that my family took notice of my abilities and agreed to let me study abroad,” she said in a student profile on the university’s website.

In an interview with NPR’s Weekly Edition Sunday, Aftab said the following: “I built more roots there and I inherited, you know, samba and jazz and Afro-Cuban … but I think, most dominantly, what fused was what I studied, which is jazz.”

She prefers to sing in Urdu

Aftab has English songs in her discography, but prefers to sing in her native Urdu. She considers the two to be different, and believes that she is able to take more risks with her music when she sings in Urdu.

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When asked whether it feels different singing in Urdu versus English, Aftab told Pitchfork, “Yeah, it lives in a different place in your mouth, in your entire body. Everything changes a little bit – the intonation and inflection, the accent, the diction … I’ve developed a vocal agility and created my own sound in Urdu.”

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