Leona Lewis

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

United Kingdom

Active from

1985

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,524,238

Total plays

45,555,739

Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British pop singer. Lewis rose to prominence in 2006 as the winner of the third series of the British television series The X Factor. Lewis has become a multi-platinum selling artist and three time Grammy Award nominee. She was proclaimed 'Top New Artist' by Billboard magazine in 2008. Her two albums Spirit and Echo, released in 2007 and 2009 respectively, have collectively sold in excess of 10 million copies worldwide and topped the charts in numerou

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

   · 1951 · cited 248,603x

2. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,305x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,533x

4. Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition

   · 1991 · cited 21,765x

5. Grey Wolf Optimizer

   · 2014 · cited 17,686x

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Quotes

• “If I woke up tomorrow morning and it was just a dream, it would be the best dream I've ever had, and I would be ― I would not be happy to be waking up! [laughter]”
• “[People] would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer", and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."”
• “I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that. I don't show off or boast, and it's pointless to think I'm going to be any different.”
• “I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.”
• “I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...”
• “Whatever happens to me from now on, I can't ever imagine wanting to distance myself from The X Factor, or having a bad word to say about it, because the show opened doors for me that had never opened before.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

leonalewismusic.com

Image

Leona Lewis 2014.jpg

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