 Lewis is a self-taught string arranger, and Grammy Award winning gospel producer Donald Lawrence employed his arranging talents for several projects in the late 1990s including Lawrence's Christmas album "Hello Christmas", and for Bishop TD Jakes "Sacred Love Songs", A few years later, Lawrence introduced innovative singer and producer Tonex to Lewis to do arranging for Tonex's "O2" album ("The Beautiful Place" and "Even You").Along with arranging, he is also known for his scores and songs with film maker/playwright and NAACP Image Award winner David E. Talbert, who assigned him the moniker "Young Q", referring to Lewis as a "young Quincy Jones" (who Lewis always refers to as the "greatest musical role model" because of Jones' incredible wide range of abilities to arrange, compose, and produce music.