Leona Lewis

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Leona Lewis was born on April, 3 1985. She is a British pop/R&B singer. Lewis rose to fame in 2006 as the winner of the third series of the British television series The X Factor. Leona Louise Lewis has become a multi-platinum selling artist and three time Grammy Award nominee. She has released one album to date, Spirit, in 2007. It became the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007 in both the UK and Republic of Ireland, and made Lewis the first British solo artist to top the Billboard 200 with a debut album.
Her second album, Echo, is due for release in November 2009. Lewis’s debut single "A Moment Like This", became the fastest selling UK single after being downloaded over 50,000 times within thirty minutes of its release. Her second single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one positions in over thirty singles charts around the world. In November 2008 she set a record in the UK for the fastest selling download-only release with her cover version of the Snow Patrol song "Run" which sold 69,244 copies in two days.
The first single to be released from Echo is "Happy", which was written by Lewis, Tedder and Evan Bogart and produced by Tedder. The single will be released in November 2009 and Lewis will perform it live on the VH1 Divas concert on 17 September 2009. It has been reported that Lewis is planning a 14-month world tour starting in 2010, which will be supporting Spirit and Echo.

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It is said that Lewis has hired choreographer Travis Payne for the tour, which is reported to have a Garden of Eden theme. Her label have apparently said that money is no object. In October 2008, The Times reported that Lewis had turned down a $1 million deal with Mohamed Al Fayed to open the Harrods sale. Lewis commented in the press that she turned down the deal on the grounds that Harrods is the only UK department store which continues to stock clothing made from animal fur.
She announced in October 2008 that she was in the "bargaining period" of launching her own ethical line of accessories, and that she is in the late stages of releasing her own perfume for Europe. Lewis signed a book deal in January 2009 to release a pictorial autobiography in October 2009. The book, entitled Dreams, will contain mostly pictures taken by photographer Dean Freeman, who has previously worked with David Beckham.














