Tufan Derince Trio

Tufan Derince Trio are a Kurdish folk band from Diyarbakir, Turkey. The group is currently based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Tufan Derince was born in 1987 and began playing music at weddings at the age of 12. He attended the Gaziantep University Conservatory Department. After his studies, Derince set up a music centre in Mersin, where he taught other musicians and began to produce music for himself and other artists.
Derince plays the electric baglama in the Tufan Derince Trio with musicians Kenan Can, Raman Dari and Murat Surucu. The group play traditional wedding and folk music. The band moved to the Netherlands partly due to the restrictions on playing Kurdish music that criticises the situation of Kurds in Turkey. The group's music has been described as "a celebration and expression of cultural pride in Kurdish identity".
In January 2020, they performed as part of the annual GlobalFEST celebration of world music in New York. New York Times music critic Jon Pareles described the band as a "whirlwind". NPR described the group's sound as "wild distorted Kurdish wedding music". The trio will perform at the SXSW music festival in 2020.