Tazeen Ayub
Detroit, MI
Music & Dance
Educator, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, curator, and community organizer, Professor Tazeen Ayub is focused on building authentic spaces of home rooted in love, spirituality, and deep reflection. She believes music is a sacred art form that can be used for storytelling, healing, solidarity, freedom, and social action. Through her voice and instrumentation (guitar, Bansuri flute, and swarmandal), she blends afro-indo sounds weaving elements from jazz, funk, soul, Sufi chants, and Indian classical music. Her projects have focused on the intersection between art, spirituality, and activism and how the arts are a vehicle for liberation. She plays in and manages several collectives, including LuFuki and Divine Providence, Tazeen & LuFuki, Astro Mystics Samaa Ensemble (South Asian avant-garde/experimental), and Autophysiopychic Millennium, an ensemble exploring the works of the late Dr. Yusef abd-Lateef. Between these ensembles, she has released four albums since 2018. Tazeen holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit. She is a tenured professor of Arabic at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan.