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

2025/7/1
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Sid Sriram: 我出生在钦奈，在弗里蒙特长大，这种双重文化背景让我从小就思考家的意义和身份认同。我逐渐意识到，家不仅仅是一个物理地点，而是记忆、人和瞬间的集合，是可以随身携带的。不断地移动和生活经历让我对家的思考逐渐成形，这首歌是我第一次能够清晰地表达这种想法和情感，希望能引起听众的共鸣。 Alexis Madrigal: 你的经历引发了我对文化根源的思考。在钦奈，许多家庭在同一个社区生活了十代人，你的家庭是这种情况吗？你在弗里蒙特的经历是怎样的？你是否深入参与了当地庞大的印度社区？

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Sid Sriram, born in India but raised in Fremont, California, has a unique musical style that blends his family's Carnatic traditions with his Bay Area upbringing. He discusses his journey, his experiences growing up Indian-American in Fremont, and the challenges and rewards of his transnational life as a musician.
  • Sriram's music blends Carnatic traditions with Western influences like jazz and hip-hop.
  • He grew up in Fremont, California, within a large Indian-American community.
  • His transnational life has influenced his music and identity.

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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.

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**Sid Sriram, **musician, his forthcoming album is Sidharth

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