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Leona Louise Lewis was born in Islington, London in 1985 to parents
Joe and Marie Lewis. Leona is the second child of three, and she has two brothers,
Kyle and Bradley. Leona grew up in Highbury and attended the Ambler Primary School
in Finsbury Park. Leona's birthday is on April 3rd.

Leona wrote her first song at the age of 12, and at the age of 13 she won the Lady D
under-18 talent show at the Hackney Empire. She attended the Sylvia Young Stage School
and the Brit School. Although her big passion is singing, she is also a keen dancer and actor.
Before auditioning for The X Factor, Leona recorded an album of her own songs called
Twilight, but the album was never released.

Leona lives in Hackney. She has been with her boyfriend Lou Al-Chamaa for over 4 years.
Prior to winning The X Factor, she worked as a receptionist for a chiropodist's practice in
Stoke Newington. She also worked in Pizza Hut as a waitress. Leona is the first female
to win an X Factor show in the United Kingdom.

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In 2006, Leona auditioned for the third series of The X Factor, singing at her audition
the classic Judy Garland song "Over the Rainbow". She made it through to the
final stages and was announced the winner on 16 December 2006, winning a
£1million recording contract with Simon Cowell’s record label.

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Leona flew out to America with Simon Cowell to meet with Clive Davis,
founder of Arista Records, to sign a £5 million record contract. Davis has been
responsible for the success of Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston is reported to
have said that Lewis will be an international star and has offered to mentor her.
Leona will now go on tour with the X Factor all across the United Kingdom.

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Leona’s debut single ‘A moment like this’ sold over 50,000 copies, in the first 30 minutes
when available for digital download on midnight of the X Factor final, breaking all
download records becoming the fastest selling download ever!!!

The CD single went on to sell over 571,000 copies in it’s first week of release
smashing the previous record set by Britney Spears ‘...Baby one more time’.

A moment like this went onto become the Christmas number one of 2006 and
also topped the Irish singles chart.

A Moment Like This (CD)