Leona Lewis

A striking young woman with a solid vocal resemblance towards the young Whitney Houston, Leona Lewis won the 3rd group of The X Element in a landslide, and transcended her reality-show origins to join up product sales in the tens of thousands over her career. Created and elevated in the Islington portion of north London, Lewis earned a talent display at age 13 and dedicated herself to music thereafter, ultimately graduating from the renowned BRIT College for Performing Arts and Technology. While operating like a receptionist and pizza waitress and composing her own materials, Lewis auditioned for The X Element in the summertime of 2006 and earned the 3rd series’ competition in Dec of that yr. Lewis’ debut solitary, a soulful cover of Kelly Clarkson’s “AN INSTANT SUCH AS THIS” (Clarkson’s personal debut American Idol display solitary), was the main solitary in the U.K. in the switch of the entire year, including the desired “Xmas number 1.” Along with her TV-driven U.K. achievement, Lewis authorized an American documenting cope with Clive Davis’ J Files in Feb 2007. By the finish of the entire year, she got released her debut recording, Spirit, in Britain, and viewed it go directly to the the surface of the graphs (combined with the one “Bleeding Like”). The American discharge implemented in 2008 with very similar achievement; it reached the very best from the Billboard 200 and received a Grammy nomination for Greatest Pop Record. Echo, Lewis’ follow-up, was released in ’09 2009, offering collaborations with Ryan Tedder, Xenomania, and Timbaland. Also in ’09 2009, Lewis released the one “I Find You (Theme from Avatar).” Compiled by Adam Horner and Simon Franglen, the melody was featured over the soundtrack towards the strike Adam Cameron film Avatar. The next year, Lewis marketed Echo using the Labyrinth tour. Motivated with the 1986 illusion film from the same name, the tour was showcased over the Dvd movie/Compact disc The Labyrinth Tour: Live in the O2 this year 2010. In 2011, Lewis started documenting her third studio room record, Glassheart, showcasing composing and production with a bevy of brands including Ryan Tedder, Fraser T. Smith, Dallas Austin, among others. The record acquired an extended gestation period, where it gradually became more digital dance-oriented. It finally made an appearance in European countries in Oct 2012. Glassheart didn’t succeed over the graphs — it just went magic in the U.K. rather than made an appearance in the U.S. — and she divide with her administration, Modest!, in Feb 2013. By the end of the entire year, she released Xmas, With Appreciate, a seasonal record in the design of A Xmas Gift for you personally from Phil Spector. In 2014, it had been announced that she was parting methods with Sony Information and putting your signature on with Universal’s Isle subsidiary. On Sept 11, 2015 she released her initial record for the label, I Am, which debuted at 12 in the U.K. but generated no main hits; its initial one, “Fireplace Under My Feet,” peaked at 51. In the summertime of 2016, Lewis starred as Grizabella within a Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Felines, during which period she announced her divide from Isle and released the charity one “(MOST OF US Are) Searching for House.”