
Leona Louise Lewis, born on 3 April 1985. It is an actor as well as a singer and activist who hails from Britain. Her birthplace and childhood was in the London Borough of Islington and went to Croydon's BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Lewis gained national attention when she won The X factor's third season in the year 2006. The singer also signed the PS1 million recording contract with Syco Music. The Kelly Clarkson cover"A Moment Like This" was the winner. The album sold 50,000 downloads within less than thirty minutes, and peaked at number one for 4 weeks. Clive Davis's label, J Records, signed Lewis to a contract for five albums for the United States. Lewis has continued to be successful with Spirit Her first studio album. It was 10x platinum accredited in the UK. Spirit became the fourth most-sold album in 2000, as well as one of the best-selling UK albums. According to the Official Charts Company claims that Spirit was the best-selling 21st century debut album by a female. The album's first single "Bleeding Love" remains in the top spot of the UK charts for seven consecutive weeks before becoming the top-selling single of 2007. The song was also the highest-selling track in the US during the same time. Lewis won the Billboard Best New Artist Award the next year. In 2009, she dropped her second studio album Echo as well as recorded the song that served as the soundtrack, "I See You" to be used in the film Avatar. In 2011, Lewis released the single "Collide", a collaboration alongside Swedish DJ Avicii as well as her first extended show, Hurt: The EP. Her third studio album, Glassheart (2012), marked a new creative direction for Lewis taking inspiration from dubstep and electronic music. Lewis began recording music to her first Christmas album on the Glassheart Tour, which took place in mid 2013. Christmas, With Love came out later that year, and the album's lead track, "One More Sleep" was a top three hit across the UK. Lewis was who is a British solo female artist was the first artist to make it into the top five with eight songs. It was more than Olivia Newton John's record which had seven.
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