Steve Leslie is a Nashville-based songwriter, performer, music publisher and a popular songwriting clinician. He has a jazz/guitar degree from Morehead State University and taught jazz history and private guitar lessons before heading to Nashville in 1992. For nine years he was a staff writer at EMI where he had songs recorded by Kenny Rogers, Mark Chesnutt, George Strait, Darryl Worley, Rhonda Vincent and Neal McCoy, to name a few.

In 2004, Ricky Skaggs' album, Brand New Strings, whose title track was written by Steve, won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album of the Year.

Since 2007 his company, New Modern Songs, has been publishing works by Darryl Worley, Darius Rucker and Rhonda Vincent - all written by Steve. Most recently, he wrote and produced the CD/DVD, Beautiful Love, featuring the new, adult-contemporary artist, Britt Lane. Steve also has two albums of his own - In The Middle and Greater Gravity - and he is venturing into new territory by composing his first musical - the romantic comedy, Umbrella.

Steve has held workshops at Morehead State University (Morehead, KY), Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN), Belmont University (Nashville, TN), Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), Nashville Songwriters Association International (Nashville, TN), as well as at chapters in Toronto, Canada and Madison, Wisconsin. To learn more about Steve, go to
http://steveleslie.com.