Sam Boodram

Samdeo "Sam" Boodram (14 July 1933 – 30 June 2020) was a Trinidadian Chutney, Bhajan, Indian classical and folk singer, Kabir Panthi mahant, and cocoa farmer. He recorded over 6,000 songs over the span of his career.

Early life 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.

Career Sam Boodram was a cocoa farmer in Cumuto. He used to have seventeen people working on his estate, picking cocoa as well as coffee cherries, bananas, and peewah. Boodram credits being an independent farmer gave him the flexibility to develop his singing career on his own time and terms. In his later life, he collaborated with younger chutney and chutney soca artist like Ravi Bissambhar and Raymond Ramnarine. Singers also paid tribute to Boodram such as Raymond Ramnarine, Nisha Bissambhar, and JMC 3Veni founder Veerendra Persad, who all said that Boodram paved the way for Indo-Caribbean musicians and that his songs have been played at most Indo-Caribbean weddings, birth celebrations, birthdays, pujas, and parties throughout the diaspora and will continue to live on.