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4 unusual facts about Leslie Lewis


Leslie Lewis

Later, at St Mary's High School,Mount Abu,Rajasthan (boarding school), Lezz was exposed to the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.

Lewis began singing something while strumming his guitar, Hari felt inspired to jam with an alaap, and the result: the seamless fusion of Eastern and Western sounds that has become characteristic of the Colonial Cousins.The year 1996 was a career milestone; he formed the band Colonial Cousins with ghazal singer Hariharan.

It was during Lewis's jingles career that the idea of Colonial Cousins was conceived.

Their first album, Colonial Cousins was a fusion album and was the first Indian act to be featured on MTV Unplugged.



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Anupama Verma

Verma was featured in the remix video of Biddu's hit song Boom Boom, sung by Nazia Hassan, as well as Bali Brahmbhatt's "Tere bin jeena nahi" with Bikram Saluja and Leslie Lewis' "Bheegi bheegi raaton mein" videos.