Leona Lewis

Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer and winner of the third series of The X Factor UK television talent show. Her UK debut single, "A Moment like This,” was released in December 2006; breaking a world record after it was downloaded over 50,000 times within 30 minutes.

Her striking beauty, charmingly down-to-earth personality, and huge, soaring voice has taken over the UK, where her debut Spirit entered the album chart at Number One and became Britain’s fastest-selling debut of all time. Spirit’s lead-off single “Bleeding Love” —co-written and produced by One Republic front man Ryan “Alias” Tedder — claimed the Number One spot for seven weeks, and the album sold over 1 million copies in the UK in just 5 weeks.

Ushering in 2008, Leona received four prestigious Brit Award nominations, the UK equivalent of the Grammy Awards. As of March 2008, Spirit has surpassed the 2.5 million sales mark and debuted at #1 in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, and New Zealand. Now Lewis hopes to do the same in the U.S. “I wanted to make an album that was totally me,” Lewis says. “Each song is about something that either I’ve gone through or that someone around me has gone through.

The lyrics reflect things that I’m really passionate about. I have to be able to put myself in the song for it to ring true to me. If it doesn’t ring true to me, it’s not going to be believable to anyone else.” Her album “Spirit” was released in the United States on 8 April 2008, and entered the Billboard 200 at number one.

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