Biography :
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985 in London) is an English pop/R&B singer and songwriter. She was discovered on the reality television show The X Factor and went on to win the third series in 2006, where she was the first female to win the show. The prize she received was a £1 million contract to Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Music. Her debut single in the United Kingdom, "A Moment Like This", broke a world record after it was downloaded over 50,000 times within thirty minutes of its release.[1]
Her second single, "Bleeding Love", was the biggest-selling single of 2008 in her home country and worldwide, topped over thirty international singles charts including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, the Republic of Ireland, France, Italy, Germany and Russia, and has since become the biggest selling single of the twenty-first century by a female, propelling Lewis to international fame.[2]
Her debut album, Spirit, was released throughout Europe in 2007 and became the fastest-selling debut album ever in both the United Kingdom and Ireland.[3][4] Released in North America in 2008, Spirit debuted at number one on the United States' Billboard 200 album chart, making Lewis the first British solo artist to top the chart with a debut album.[5]
Her fifth UK single which is a cover of Snow Patrol song "Run", became the fastest selling digital-only release of all time, after it sold 69,244 in just two days.[6] By the end of the first week, download sales had reached 131,593, some eight thousand below the first week sales of "A Moment Like This".[7] Lewis reached number one in both Ireland and the UK purely from downloads of the song.
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