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Forum from the Archives: Fremont's Sid Sriram Fuses New Genres with Family Legacy of Traditional Indian Singing

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Singer Sid Sriram was born in southern India, but his family moved to Fremont when he was just a year old. His voice and his sound are the product of his family’s legacy as carnatic traditional signers and of  a childhood in the Bay Area suburbs, listening to jazz and hip hop. Sriram has already achieved fame in India, his career expanded globally after singing for Grammy-Award winning composer A.R. Rahman, and he was recently featured in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. He joins us in our studio to sing from his new album and talk about growing up Indian-American in the Fremont and what it’s like to be more famous halfway across the world than where you went to high school. Guests: Sid Sriram, musician, his forthcoming album is Sidharth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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back to forums live in studio performances by Great Bay Area musicians.

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Today, Sid Sri Ram.

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He's a famous singer in southern India where he was born in

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the city of Chennai, but Sriram moved to the U.S. to Fremont, California at the age of one. His sound is the

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product of his family's legacy as traditional Indian musicians and a childhood in the Bay Area

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suburbs listening to jazz and hip-hop.

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He came into our studio to sing for us and to talk about his transnational life.

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

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Sid Sviram is a rising star in the musical world with a transnational sound that combines his family's Carnotic musical traditions with his own musical taste and his training at Berkeley School of Music.

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He joins us here this morning in Studio B. Welcome, Sid.

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Thank you for having me.

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