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LEONA LEWIS - RUN
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter and animal welfare campaigner. She was born and raised in the Islington, London, where she attended the
BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of
The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Simon Cowell's record label,
Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "
A Moment Like This", peaked at number one for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart and it broke a world record for having 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records.
Lewis's success continued with the release of her debut album,
Spirit, in 2007; it went 10x platinum in the United Kingdom, while the lead single, "
Bleeding Love", spent seven weeks at number one. She achieved international recognition with the album in 2008, when she became the first British female solo artist to top the US Billboard 200 album chart in more than 20 years.
Spirit has sold more than eight million copies worldwide, and "
Bleeding Love" peaked at number one in over 30 countries, becoming the best-selling single of 2008. Under the guidance of Cowell and Davis, Lewis released her second UK number-one album
Echo and recorded the theme song for the film
Avatar in 2009, while embarking on her first UK arena tour,
The Labyrinth, in 2010.
In 2011, Lewis released the non-album single "
Collide", a collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii, and her first extended play,
Hurt: The EP. Her third album,
Glassheart, was released in 2012. It marked a new creative direction for Lewis, drawing inspiration from dubstep and electronic music. However, it failed to match the commercial performance of her two previous albums, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart and becoming her first to not be certified platinum. Lewis began to record material for her first Christmas album during her
Glassheart Tour, which took place in mid 2013.
Christmas, with Love was released later that year. Its lead single, "
One More Sleep", peaked at number three in the UK. With this chart entry, Lewis became the first British female solo artist to achieve eight top 5 singles, surpassing Olivia Newton-John's record of seven.
With a career starting in 2006, Lewis is the second best-selling act to have emerged from
The X Factor franchise, having sold 20 million records worldwide.[1] Lewis has won one
Bambi Award, an
MTV Video Music Award and three
World Music Awards. She is also a seven-time
Brit Award and three-time
Grammy Award nominee. In 2014, Lewis made her film debut in the supporting role of Elena in the romantic comedy musical,
Walking on Sunshine. Amongst her many awards, in 2015 she also received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Music Pioneer Award at the United Nations.
Lewis is currently making her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
Cats, which opened in July 2016.
I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done
And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you, dear
Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbyes
I nearly do
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you, dear
Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you, dear
Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
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I almost sent her when I had London, will vote asap!
Such a clear winner in the pack for me too. Well, scandalous hour-late votes have been sent from 
