Born in London Borough of Islington, to social worker parent Aural Josiah and Maria Lewis.
Leona Lewis was put through theater school very early at the age of five. At the age of six she decided that she wanted to be a singer. She went to school at Ambler Primary School in Finsbury park and also attended Sylvia Young Theatre. She was later enrolled in Italia Conti Academy and then BRIT School. There she learned Guitar and Piano and worked very hard to write her very own songs.
Leona wrote her first song at the age of 12. At the age of 13, she won the Lady D under-eighteen talent show at Hackney Empire. Although her focus and passion was music she would become a keen dancer and actor.
As a teenager Leona Lewis would go on to write and produce a number of songs including her demo album, Twilight which was never released. She also recorded a version of Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin You’ with music producer Marley J. Wills. Unable to secure a contract Leona Lewis took a number of jobs to pay to get into a recording studio, including waitressing at Pizza Hut and receptionist job at chiropody surgery in Stoke Newington High Street.
With no luck and her dream fading away, Leona considered placing her music career on hold to attend a University, before her finance Lou Al-Chamaa, that she has known since they were ten years of age persuaded her to enter X Factor.
Since winning she has been Nominated for three Grammy awards, Her second single, "Bleeding Love", was the biggest-selling single of 2007 in her home country, 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.
Like Pablo Picasso, Leona Lewis begun her journey within her passion at a very early age.
Leona Lewis’s Passion has been identified
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