We turn heartbreak into anthems, pain into poetry, and brown boy feels into global bangers. AUR is not a trend — it’s a wave.
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Who or what is your musical inspiration?
Our music is inspired by emotion itself — what it means to feel deeply, to grow quietly, to hurt beautifully. We draw from heartbreak, healing, and the spaces in between — from legends like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to the soft ache of Frank Ocean, but ultimately, we sound like ourselves: three boys from Karachi telling emotional truths through melody.
How would performing at the Global Citizen Festival impact your career?
Performing at Global Citizen would be our loudest quiet moment. As three brown boys from Karachi making emotional ballads, this stage isn’t just a spotlight — it’s a bridge. It would let us show the world that vulnerability, poetry, and Desi identity can belong on the biggest global platforms. For us, this wouldn’t just be a performance. It would be a declaration: South Asian stories deserve to be center stage — and we’re here to sing them.
What would you do with $50,000?
We’d invest every dollar back into the music. $50,000 would fund our first global short film-style music video, an immersive live experience, and help us bring Desi emotional storytelling to a wider world. This isn’t prize money — it’s seed money for the next evolution of South Asian sound. We’re not here for a moment. We’re building something that lasts.
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