World-renowned and Grammy Award-winning Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab expressed her dismay at the marginalization of artistes on specific cultural and linguistic grounds.
When the Grammy Award-winning singer expressed her displeasure with those calling herself ‘Urdu’ and ‘Pakistani singer’ on the micro-blogging site Twitter, a new debate has erupted on social media.
Arooj Aftab wrote on Twitter that Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab, Urdu singer Arooj Aftab, amazing Urdu singing of Arooj Aftab, is it right? Can a musician transcend color and race? Is it necessary to put a tag on it?
This tweet from the Grammy Award-winning singer sparked a new debate on social media.
Due to his above mentioned tweet, many users started speculating that Urooj Aftab is ashamed to be called Pakistani or to speak Urdu. Because of this, he was criticized by many social media users.
However, later she further tweeted and clarified that I am not anti-Pakistan and neither am I talking about erasing or abandoning my roots or heritage, rather I am describing my experience of visiting Britain and Europe. Meanwhile I feel like I’m being pushed back on linguistic grounds.
They are allowed to marginalize someone on the basis of geography and language, it is very easy for them to completely ignore someone’s achievements, he added, referring to the Maghrib without naming names. Push back and stop moving forward in the future.
After severe criticism from social media users, Urooj Aftab closed the comment option on his tweets saying that he is proud and proud of his roots and culture from the bottom of his heart and his tweets were about Maghreb bias.
It should be noted that Urooj Aftab is currently on a tour of Europe and UK.
In April 2022, he won the award for Best Global Music Performance for his song ‘Love’ at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani artist to win a Grammy Award. On the occasion of Pakistan’s 75th Diamond Jubilee anniversary, President Arif Alvi also honored Urooj Aftab with the Pride of Performance award.
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