On her new EP “Songs for my Grandmother”, Tuğçe Kurtiş presents us some of the favourite Turkish songs of her grandmother.

Paraguay

When we first wrote about unique duo Santi & Tuğçe, they were inspired by traditional music from Southeastern Turkey. On their new album, they remind us about the still undiscovered beauty of Paraguay.

When we first wrote about unique duo Santi & Tuğçe, they were inspired by traditional music from Southeastern Turkey. On their new album, they remind us about the still undiscovered beauty of Paraguay.

“The origin of this song is unknown. It is sometimes referred to as ‘Urfa turkusu’, the folk song of Urfa, a city in Southeastern Turkey. Many singers in Turkey have made covers of this song,” tells us the Turkish singer Tuğçe Kurtiş.