Shab
Shab, mononymously stylized as SHAB, is a Persian-American pop singer and songwriter. She escaped fundamentalist Iran as a pre-teen, traveled alone as a young teenager to the United States and now creates mainly within the electronic dance music and pop music genres.
Over her career she has had multiple Billboard | Mediabase Top 40 hits, but has notably achieved four U.S. Top 40 consecutive chart appearances with singles successively released since late 2025.
Known for her high energy and charismatic performances, Shab's music demonstrates her focus upon individual liberties and global women's rights. Co-composing almost all of the songs in her discography, she draws heavily for the lyrical and emotional content of her music from her experiences as a refugee as well as celebrates the gradual transformation of her psycho-emotional mindset ingrained by her Iranian upbringing in favor of Western concepts of citizenship, womanhood and female identity|esteem.
Shab has also emerged in recent years as a leading and outspoken Persian-American dissident across U.S. & British media in opposition to the current Fundamentalist regime in Iran.
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