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From KQED.

I'm different ways I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Sid Sriram is a famous singer in southern India, where he was born in the city of Chennai.

But Sriram moved to the United States at the age of one to

Fremont, California, to be exact. His voice and his sound are the product of his family's legacy

as Carnotic traditional singers and a childhood in the Bay Area suburbs listening to jazz and hip-hop.

This morning, we're going to play his music, maybe he'll perform a little here in the studio,

and we'll talk about his transnational life and identity, his training at Berkeley School of Music,

and what it's like to be more famous halfway around the world than where he went to high school.

That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Sid Sviram is a rising star in the musical world with the transnational sound that combines his family's

Carnotic musical traditions with his own musical taste and his training at Berkeley School of

Music. He joins us here this morning in Studio B. Welcome, Sid. Thank you for having me.

So we're going to jump right in with a song. We're going to try and do this fun thing where you're

going to sing some of the song for us here, Acapella, in the studio, and then we're going to hear some of the

recording too so people can hear how your voice gets placed into the mix. And I think you're

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