Sid Sriram

A multidisciplinary musician, playback singer, and songwriter/composer as well as a genre-defying solo artist, Sid Sriram is best known for his soulful soundtrack performances. Raised in California, the Berklee College of Music alumnus works in several languages and their related film industries, including but not limited to Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and English. Fresh out of college, he broke through with his film debut, singing A.R. Rahman’s “Adiye” in the 2013 Tamil movie Kadal. An in-demand playback singer thereafter, he worked again with Rahman on films such as 2.0 (2018), 99 Songs (2021), and Pathu Thala (2023) amid voice appearances in over 200 movies in his first decade of work (most of them in Telugu and Tamil). In the meantime, Sriram made his composing debut in the 2019 film Vaanam Kottattum, penning five of its six songs in addition to composing the score with music director K (Krishna Kumar). That same year, he released his own debut album, Entropy, a genre-bending set of art pop injected with contemporary R&B, adult alternative pop, Indian Carnatic music, and rap inspirations. The similarly complex follow-up, Sidharth, arrived on the Def Jam label in 2023. ~ Marcy Donelson