Steve Leslie has had a professional songwriting career for more than 30 years with songs recorded by Kenny Rogers, Mark Chesnutt, George Strait, Darryl Worley, Rhonda Vincent, Neal McCoy, Ricky Skaggs, Darius Rucker, Jake Worthington, and many more.
Along with multiple BMI awards, Steve received a Grammy Certificate for the title cut to Ricky Skaggs' 2004 Best Bluegrass Album of the Year “Brand New Strings.”
As a co-writer and mentor, Steve was instrumental in the careers of artists Erin Enderlin, Chris Stapleton, and Abbey Cone.
As an educator, Steve was an adjunct professor of Jazz History at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, FL, and of Songwriting at Belmont University in Nashville, TN; a frequent guest clinician; and lecturer at Morehead State University in Morehead, KY, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN, and Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
