International pop sensation Shab has said it’s important to "spread love to everyone without exception" after wowing fans at Pride events across America.
The musician, who is originally from Tehran in Iran, recently took to the stage at concerts in Chicago and Philadelphia to honour the LGBTQ+ community, with the star insisting it's important to "celebrate life and love".
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, Shab explained why it was so important to her to perform at the Pride events.
She said: "For me, Pride celebrations are central to my feelings about giving people enough room to be who they want to be. Everybody has the right to be who they want to be.
"At the end of the day, it's all about celebrating life, love, acceptance, freedom.
"And for me to be able to connect with everybody, it doesn't matter about gender, age, colour, race, etc. I just love my fans, period."
She added: "At the end of the day I'm here to spread love to everyone without exception."
The mother-of-two also has some personal connections to the LGBTQ+ community.
"I have friends that have been through dramatic adversity when they came out, some of whom had been thinking about committing suicide because they didn’t know how to come out," she said.
"My kids have classmates that have two dads or two moms and they bring their children to my house for soccer training on our field multiple times each month."
Shab said her six-year-old son has already been learning how to be accepting of others and told her: "Mommy we’re all the same inside."
She also said it is "important for us to educate kids" in order to "give them room to be who they want to be".
Speaking about her dream collaboration, Shab said she would love to team up with Lady Gaga.
"I love her message to the world and I’m just trying to spread my own message in my own way.
"I'm praying for Iran to be free one day and the LGBT+ community in Iran are scared for their life right now and they can't ever be who they want to be.
"That just saddens me. We're living in the 21st century and there's still so much pain in the world.
"In some parts of the world, we've won, but in other parts of the world there's still so much pain and I want to shed some light.
"Hopefully one day Iran will be free."
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