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Leona Lewis
British singer (born 1985)
Leona Louise LewisOBE (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, actress, model, and activist. Born and raised in Islington, Inner London, she later attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of the television talent show The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This", peaked at number one for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart and broke a world record by reaching 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records.
Lewis's success continued with the release of her debut studio album, Spirit (2007), which was certified 10× platinum in the UK and became the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s and one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. The lead single, "Bleeding Love", spent seven weeks at number one in the
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Leona Lewis - Biography
Leona Lewis is a British singer who rose to fame after winning the 2006 series of The X Factor, which led to a successful music career.
Leona Lewis's early life
Leona was born in April 1985 in Islington, London, where she attended the famous Sylvia Young Theatre School, before going onto study at the Italia Conti Academy and the BRIT school. The talented youngster was passionate about music from an early age and learned to play the guitar and piano before turning her hand to songwriting.
Leona Lewis's music career
By the age of 17, Leona had already begun to write and sing her own songs. After struggling to secure a record contract, she signed up for The X Factor and went on to win the 2006 series.
Her debut single A Moment Like This, which smashed a world record after it was downloaded an incredible 50,000 times in 30 minutes, made the coveted Christmas number one spot and outsold the rest of the Top 40 singles combined. It was the beginning of a stellar 2007 for the star-in-the-making. Following up her chart success, she signed a
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Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a Britishactress and singer-songwriter.
Lewis first became famous when she won a television talent contest in Britain called The X Factor. When she won The X Factor in 2006, Lewis got a £1 million contract to make more music. She then released a song, as part of The X Factor contract, called A Moment Like This which was the number 1 song in the charts at Christmas after selling 571,253 copies in the shops and on download.
Lewis then released her second song on 22 October 2007 called Bleeding Love which was the number 1 song again in Britain, and also reached number 1 in the United States. It sold 218,805 copies in the first week of release. She released her first album called Spirit in November 2007. Her second album is Echo, which was released 9 November 2009.
Her first concert tour called The Labyrinth was in 2010.
Her songs include Better in Time and Bleeding Love.
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