Shab made an emotional return to New York for her first concert in the city last week.
At a politically-charged time, Shab stands out for being proud of her back story as an Iranian refugee who was taken to the US as a young teen, and strode confidently onto the stage in a black overcoat, symbolically clutching a small suitcase as the spoken-word intro to her track Alchemy blared out over the speakers at Racket NYC.
