page_title: Lesle Lewis (composer)
section_title: Colonial Cousins
hierarchical_section_title: Lesle Lewis (composer) / Biography / Colonial Cousins
caption_attribution_description: Leslie Lewis's at Launch of his album 'Tanha Sa Hoon'
context_page_description: Leslee Lewis is an Indian singer and composer known for his work with Hariharan as the duo Colonial Cousins. They won the MTV Asia Viewer's Choice Award and then the U.S. Billboard Viewer's Choice Award for 'Colonial Cousins', their debut album. He conceived and created all the music for Coke Studio, MTV India debut season.
  Popularly known as 'Lezz' in the industry, Leslee Lewis is one of the very first Indian composers to have introduced the Indian audiences to Rock and Pop music. Leslee's creative side comes as an inherited value from his father, P L Raj, noted choreographer from the film industry.
  With an aim to give the audiences a taste of varied music flavors, he has been successful in keeping his originality intact with advertisement jingles, film music and other forms of modern music.
context_section_description: Lewis first worked with ghazal singer Hariharan in 1992, creating a jingle. They formed Colonial Cousins in 1996 and recorded an album, Colonial Cousins. They were the first Indian act to be featured on MTV Unplugged. It won the MTV Indian Viewers' Choice award and Billboard Award for the Best Asian Music Group. They released the albums The Way We Do It (1998) and Aatma (2001) and composed the soundtrack for the Tamil films Modhi Vilayadu and Chikku Bukku.
caption: Lesle Lewis's at Launch of his album 'Tanha Sa Hoon'
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