In the US, it was the best-selling single of 2008 and Lewis was proclaimed Best New Artist by Billboard the same year. The lead single, " Bleeding Love", spent seven weeks at number one in the UK and was the best-selling single of 2007. According to the Official Charts Company, Spirit is the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the 21st century. Lewis's success continued with the release of her debut studio album, Spirit (2007), which was certified 10× platinum in the UK and became the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s and one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records. 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 broke a world record by reaching 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes.
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Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music. She was born and raised in the London Borough of Islington, and she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. As mushy as soup, there are no edges at all to Spirit sadly, there is precious little spirit, either.Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, actress, model and activist. As it is, she only has the courage to under-sing once, on 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', a song not even a bellows could rob of emotion. If singing were an Olympic sport, she would be hunched over by the weight of gold medals. It is too perfect, jumping up ladders of notes on 'Homeless', never catching, never breaking. Lewis's voice is impressively elastic throughout but lacks any grit or style. Not even Dallas Austin - who has worked with Sugababes - can make 'Whatever It Takes' any fun. Only one - 'Take a Bow' - feels like it is of the 21st century, with its daring machine-made pan pipes. The further you go inside Spirit, however, the more it feels like a very glossy tar pit. Coronary pathologists will be amused by the lyrics ('My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing/You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep bleeding love'), but - like Lewis herself - it is hard to hate. 'Bleeding Love', the No 1 single, has its charms. Davis, of course, made the first Whitney, and has had a hand in scads of superstars since it is his enthusiasm that has taken Lewis international.
Still, if this it what it takes to make a new Whitney, that is what Simon Cowell and US mogul Clive Davis will spend. The mind boggles at how much it cost in writers, producers, studio time and session musicians. Nine months in the making, Lewis's debut Spirit is a gold-plated clockwork nightingale of an album: beautiful in theory but absurdly overwrought. But not even that hint of calculation can dent the aura of sweet decency that surrounds her. Lewis has been at performing arts schools since she was five. She escaped London's most notorious borough, Hackney, and became the nation's darling last year as she struggled with nerves on The X Factor. Like the hardest of hardcore punks, she is straight-edge: no drugs, no alcohol, not even caffeine. There are many reasons to like Leona Lewis.
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