Week 4 Singer : Leona Lewis

Leona Lewis

Leona Louise Lewis was born 3 April 1985 in London and 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 Si

mon 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.

Her second single, "Bleeding Love", was the biggest-selling single of 2007 in her home country and achieved a similar feat in 2008 worldwide. It 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.

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