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Shab | |
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| Birth name | Shabnam Kamoii |
| Born | April 26th Tehran, Iran |
| Genres | Pop, Electronic Dance |
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| Years active | 2019–present |
| Labels | Shabnam Music LLC |
| Website | www.shabofficial.com |
Shab is an Iranian-American pop music singer-songwriter who was born in Iran.
Shab was born in Tehran, Iran as the youngest of 18 children (with five half-siblings) by her father, a senior figure in the petroleum industry in Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. With the advent of the Iranian Revolution, his family became immediate enemies of the new fundamentalist regime and were targeted for persecution by the incoming theocratic ruling class. She exited alone from Iran, as the family had managed to enlist a boarding elementary school in Kassel, Germany to safeguard her, while the remainder of her family gradually relocated in America as political refugees. Six years later, Shab was granted political asylum in the United States (as the remainder of her family had settled in greater Baltimore, Maryland).
After graduating from high school in Towson, Maryland and thereafter from Towson University, she spent the next decade briefly attending law school at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale before dropping out and returning to Baltimore, where she mainly worked within the various businesses of her entrepreneurial family.
Shab began writing songs in her native Persian while attending law school, but would not record any material until 2017 when she began to record and release her initial music tracks in her native Persian language. These efforts facilitated a minor hit in her Iranian homeland under her given name of Shabnam with the single "Love You".
During late 2018, she switched to English language compositions and began collaborating with Grammy-award winning producer Damon Sharpe, together creating Down To The Wire and Spell On Me (co-written with Sharpe and Eric Sanicola). Spell On Me went on to chart at Number One on the Global Digital Music Chart and Number Two on the British Commercial Pop Chart. Both songs later appeared among the eight tracks on her debut English album, entitled Infinite Love, released during early 2021. [1]
During 2022 through 2024, Shab released a number of singles co-composed with producer Sharpe, including Serenity, Criss Cross, Indestructible, Skin & Bones and in addition to a cover ofSexual (Li Da Di) (originally sung by the Dutch pop singer Amber).
She also prominently collaborated during 2023 with the legendary rap artist Fat Joe on her first Top 40 chart hit VooDoo, an amalgam of his Terror Squad hiphop anthem Lean Back merged with Shab's debut single release, Spell On Me. [2]
During February 2025, Shab released her critically acclaimed [3] [4] sophomore double album, One Suitcase. [5]
Shab became an American citizen during 1997 and currently resides in Dallas with her publicity-allergic partner and two children.
While her stage name of Shab is actually her nickname used by her family throughout her life, her given name is Shabnam (which translates to "morning dew", in Persian).
She has notably supported, with her direct personal involvement, several charities, including Hope Supply Co. (a north Texas non-profit that provides aid to homeless children, for which she performed a 2021 benefit concert) and Choose Love (a London-based assistance organization for refugees and misplaced people, for which she was named a Global Ambassador during late 2024). [6] [7] [8]
