Hariharan is an Indian playback and ghazal singer, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu films. He is one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil and Bollywood cinemas.