Leona Louise Lewis (born April 3, 1985) is a British singer, she rose to fame as the winner of the third series of The X Factor and became the first female winner of the show Leona Lewis has gone on to become a multi-platinum selling artist and three-time Grammy Award-nominated, she signed a £ 1 million record deal with Simon Cowell Syco Music record label and went on to write a 5 million pound five albums in the U.S. contract with Clive Davis J Records label Her debut single "A Moment Like This" went on to become the fastest-selling British single since it was downloaded over 50000 times within thirty minutes of its release
Her second single "Bleeding Love" was released worldwide and reached over thirty number one positionsin the graph around the world, including United States Canada Japan Australia New Zealand Mexico Ireland France Italy Germany Russia
released her debut album Spirit in Britain and Ireland, and went on to become the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007 in both countries in early 2008 it was released in Europe and Asia, a revised edition of the Spirit was released in North America in mid-2008 makes its debut at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart Lewis is the first British solo artist to top the chart with a debut album, The album also became number one in ten other countries WordWide So far the album has sold over 65 million copies worldwide and has a 9 x platinum certification in the GrandUK
In November 2008, Lewis set a record iuk the fastest selling download-only release of his cover of Snow Patrol song "Run" which sold 69,244 in just two days
in November 2009 the first set of dates for her 2010 debut world tour announced Lewis's second album Echo is planned for a worldwide launch in November 2009Production took place in 2009, including work with Ryan Tedder Justin Martin TimberlakeMax Arnthor Birgisson Kevin Rudolfand John ShanksIt was recorded in Los Angeles and took nine months to produceIt said to be "more guitar-driven" compared with SpiritOne of album tracks "My Hands" appears as leitmotif for Final Fantasy XIII's North American and European release the first single released from the Echo's "Happy" somskrevs of Lewis Tedder and Evan Bogart and produced by Tedder It was released September 15, 2009 and Lewis performed it live on America's Got Talen Tooth on the VH1 Divas concert, September 17, 2009 where she performed "True Colors" as a duet with Cyndi Lauper
