Persian-American singer Shab made her Irish debut last night with an electric performance at Dublin's 3Arena.
The Iran native became a break-out star during the pandemic and new music including Voodoo x Fat Joe and Indestructable have been major successes this year.
Shab is a refugee from the fundamentalist revolution in Iran who first came to America by herself at age 14 and learned English while working three jobs. She has become a leading entertainment industry voice for women’s rights in Iran and in bold defiance of what she has labelled ‘the gangster regime’ in Tehran.
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Since arriving in America as a teenager, she not only graduated from university but also briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue writing and performing music full-time.
The mother-of-two is supporting JLS on their UK and Ireland Arena tour which opened in Dublin on Friday night - and her dance tracks and exhilarating choreography got the whole venue moving.
Indestructable received a great reaction from the crowd, with attendees grooving along to the superpower-charged anthem. Shab told Dublin Live ahead of the gig: “I wrote that during Covid and it was just about having superhuman powers that are within you that God has bestowed upon us. We all have been a child of revolution at one point, or our parents or ancestors.
"Indestructable is about having superhuman powers, knowing your worth, knowing that there are so many prayers and love around you and knowing that you’re protected by the divine.
“At the end of the day I always say, we come from another place into this world and we just have to be a little bit kinder to one another."
Shab also performed her brand new song Pull It Up for the first time at the 3Arena. Ahead of the gig she said she "couldn't wait" to perform it for the Irish crowd.
“This is always going to be special to me because I’ve never performed it anywhere else before and no one else has heard it except for my family," she said.
“As women we’re just so tired of mediocre love, we want the real love so gentlemen I need you to step it up and pull it up.”
Shab explained that music was a constant in her home when growing up and offered her a "bubble of protection. She said: “I’m a child of revolution and during the Iran/Iraq war, there were bombs coming down but we were in the house cooking dinner and listening to music to try and stay positive.
“As soon as we would get home, we would turn on the music and we were in this bubble of protection as such. It was so transformational and transcending and music would take us to another place. Music has healed, helped and saved me.”
You can keep up with Shab's music on Instagram.
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