Hi, I just got my yearly spotify wrapped and was quite surprised, that one of my top Genres was "Turkish Folk" / "Türkischer Folk" (in german), when I am listening mostly to Kurdish songs. Musicians such as Mikail Aslan or Erdogan Emir are mostly singing in Kurdish, yet they are categorized within the Genre "Türkischer Folk". This has to be redefined. Mikail Aslan, Erdogan Emir, Mehmet Atli, Kerem Sevinc, Mem Ararat, Aynur Dogan, Sivan Perwer, Metin Kemal Kahraman, Soner Emir, Xecê and so on are important Kurdish musicians (singing in various Kurdish dialects or languages of Kurds). Therefore they need to be summarised in their own Genre "Kurdish Folk" or german: "Kurdischer Folk". The variety of kurdish music can than be more specified into "Kurdish Rock" for instance with artists such as Ciwan Haco, Xero Abbas and Bajar or "Kurdish Rap" with artists such as Serhado. Spotify needs a team of experts (e.g. from the Kurdish music industry) to categorize the Kurdish Genres. We are talking about a huge audience of Kurdish listeners all over the world (Kurds make about 35 millions total).
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