Sid Sriram was born on 19 May 1990 in Chennai and moved with his family to the United States at the age of one. He grew up in Fremont, California. He is a playback singer and independent artist who sings mostly in Tamil and Telugu, and he has also sung in Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi and English.
His mother, the Carnatic music teacher Latha Sriram, began teaching him when he was three. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston in music production and engineering, and his mix of Carnatic phrasing and contemporary vocal styling became his signature.
His earliest playback credit is “Adiye” from Kadal (2013), composed by A. R. Rahman. He then sang “Thalli Pogathey” from Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada (2016) and “Maruvaarthai” from Enai Noki Paayum Thota. In Telugu he sang “Inkem Inkem” from Geetha Govindam (2018), “Samajavaragamana” from Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020) and “Srivalli” from Pushpa: The Rise (2021).
His independent debut album, Entropy, was released in 2019 and is based on an independent song he published in 2012.
He is regarded as one of the leading voices of South Indian film music of the past decade.
Featured image: Sid Sriram (cropped). Photo by Dharshgopal, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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