Leslie likes to play of his interbreeding. Its colors are those which enable her to have fun sometimes with its identity, being moulted according to the inspiration as a girl of the East, Chinese woman, kid latino or of Africa. For this child of origin French, Vietnamese and Polynesian, the crossing of the cultures is also that which enriches his musical pallet and its convictions. In its first album, I am and I will remain, certified gold disc, the groove R' B could not illuminate sun of the Ivory Coast of Magic System or Hispanic song of Gulseren. The chatoyante variety of My colors, its new opus, can transport the urban soul of Cuba (a duet with the rappeurs havanais of Orishas) to the Maghreb (the topic Arabist and song of Amine in Sobri (Our destiny), first individual drawn from the album). In the middle of these choices, pleasure of the musical voyages, mixing of the communities and emotions. Leslie likes to entrust that it must much in Africa. Of its childhood passed between Gabon and Togo, it kept the memory of a joy in life and to dance, the taste of simplicity and essence, the conscience also of the inequalities of a two-speed world. The reminiscences of this last happiness are not foreign besides with the melancholy which impregnates a number of the songs of Leslie. Soaked by a maternal discotheque mouthful of nuggets soul (Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles), guided by a big brother type-setter fan of Stevie Wonder, the girl chose to be expressed by R' B. Fascinated by the technical control of the stars American, as by the capacity of this music making palpitate the emotions, Leslie began his training in a MJC from Mans. Preferring the workshop rap with the workshop song, it is undoubtedly there that it was aware of the importance which the texts in a kind too often taxed with futility could take. After the success of its first album, the young woman did not cease gaining in autonomy and in maturity and it is as a true composer-songwriter that it made sound the new chapter of her discography. If My colors is avoided syncopes and sounds enivrants concoctés by a duet of producers of point, Kore & Skalp (already noticed at the side of Rhoff or Booba), Leslie imposes in songs like Egoïstes (made up with Little D), Our angers or the time which passes (made up with Pierre Izak) the refusal of the childishness glamour and of individualism king for a search of depth rather not very common in the rythm' contemporary blues. To a significant degree, its vocal agility rubs in I show with the alleviating intensity of the rap of Kery James, figure of the moral integrity in the hip French hop. And when a ballade as accrocheuse as And I wait (made up by Maleko) engrave in us, it is while carrying a message of hope. While waiting to find the scene, its medium of predilection, Leslie affirms in My colors the force of a character and a polychrome talent.
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