Fremont's Sid Sriram Fuses New Genres with Family Legacy of Traditional Indian Singing

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 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. Rahm, 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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0:47.1	Sid Sriram is a famous singer in southern India, where he was born in the city of Chennai.
0:52.0	But Sri Ram moved to the United States at the age of one to Fremont, California, to be exact.
0:57.5	His voice and his sound are the product of his family's legacy as Carnatic traditional singers
1:01.9	and a childhood in the Bay Area suburbs listening to jazz and hip-hop.
1:07.0	This morning, we're going to play his music, maybe he'll perform a little here in the studio,
1:11.3	and we'll talk about his transnational life and identity,
1:14.6	his training at Berkeley School of Music,
1:16.7	and what it's like to be more famous halfway around the world
1:19.0	than where he went to high school.
1:20.6	That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
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