16 Facts About Sam Boodram

Samdeo "Sam" Boodram was a Trinidadian Chutney, Bhajan, Indian classical and folk singer, Kabir Panthi mahant, and cocoa farmer.

Sam Boodram recorded over 6,000 songs over the span of his career.

Sam Boodram was born into a Hindu Indian family to Boodram Balroop and Babonie Boodram in El Dorado, Trinidad and Tobago, on 14 July 1933.

Sam Boodram attended the Bal Maharaj Hindu School where he learned Hindustani and was introduced to Indian singing as part of a program sponsored by Chanka Maharaj, a prominent politician and landowner.

When Boodram was ten years old his family moved to Cumuto.

Sam Boodram later met the Indian classical singer, Ramcharitar, who became his guru.

Sam Boodram used to have seventeen people working on his estate, picking cocoa as well as coffee cherries, bananas, and peewah.

Sam Boodram credits being an independent farmer gave him the flexibility to develop his singing career on his own time and terms.

Sam Boodram started professionally singing Indian classical music in 1947 at the age of fourteen.

Sam Boodram later ventured out into singing chutney music and was one of the founding fathers of the genre.

Sam Boodram was given the nickname D' Lion of Cumuto by radio announcer Surujpat Mathura.

Sam Boodram toured throughout Trinidad and Tobago, as well as internationally in Guyana, Suriname, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Sam Boodram was the sister of the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday, and Subhas Panday a lawyer and former politician.

Sam Boodram died at his home in Cumuto on 30 June 2020, at the age of 86.

Sam Boodram had spent his last days with his family and friends, as well as reading the Ramcharitamanas.

Sam Boodram's funeral was done per Kabir Panthi Hindu rights and he was cremated at the Caroni Cremation Site.