CThe First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Leona Lewis
The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face By Leona Lewis.
The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hands
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
The first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the Earth
The first time ever I saw your face
Your face
Your face
Your face
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Leona Lewis .
Leona Louise Lewis is a British Pop/R&B artist who was born 5 April 1985 in London. She was the first female winner of the UK reality TV series The X Factor. As a result of the show she signed a £1million recording contract to Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Music, Lewis later went on to sign a £5 million ($9.7 million) five album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records. Her debut UK single was a version of Kelly Clarkson’s "A Moment Like This" which went on to become the fastest selling UK single after it was downloaded over 50,000 times within thirty minutes of its release. She is widely regarded as being one of the best female vocalists in the world, and is frequently compared with artists such as Mariah Carey and Céline Dion.Leona Lewis was born in the London Borough of Islington, to Aural Josiah "Joe" Lewis, a youth worker from Guyana and Maria Lewis, a British social worker of Welsh descent. From the age of five, she enrolled at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, then the Italia Conti Academy and finally ending up BRIT School. It was here that she learned to play instruments such as the guitar & piano and also she began to write her own songs for the hope of becoming a singer-songwriter;
At the age of 12 she wrote her first full length song and won a number of small music competitions that she had entered. After her time at the BRIT School, Lewis took a number of jobs to fund studio recordings sessions, including waitressing and several receptionist jobs. Initially Lewis had been training to sing opera, and looked up to sopranos like Leontyne Price. She then changed her direction and began singing jazz and blues, eventually leading to singing popular music, citing Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey as her main influences.
When she was fifteen years old, she recorded a version of Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" with music producer Marley J. Wills, who commented that "Leona could hit the notes and I think she did it better than the original." She did at one stage write and record songs for a demo album called Twilight under license of UEG Entertainment. However, this album was never released and she considered taking a hiatus from her music career to attend university until her boyfriend persuaded her to enter The X Factor which subsequently severed her connections with UEG.
"Bleeding Love" was chosen to be the second UK single (first elsewhere) and subsequently became the biggest-selling single of 2007 in the UK whilst achieving similar success in 2008 worldwide. At its peak the single reached over thirty number 1 positions in charts around the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, the Republic of Ireland, France, Italy, Germany and Russia. The single is the biggest selling single of the twenty-first century by a female artist.
The debut album Spirit, was released throughout Europe and went on to became the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007. A revised edition of the “Spirit” was released in North America in 2008, making its debut at number one on the United States' Billboard 200 album chart. Lewis the first British solo artist to top the chart with a debut album. To date the album has sold over 6 million copies worldwide and has a 9x platinum certification in the UK.
In November 2008 Lewis set a brand new record for the fastest selling download-only release with her cover of the Snow Patrol song "Run" which sold 69,244 in just two days.
In 2006, Lewis auditioned for the third series of The X Factor, singing "Over the Rainbow". After singing tracks such as "Hero", "Without you" and "Baby one more time" at the bootcamp and judges' houses stages, she made it through to the final stages and was announced the winner on 16 December 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract, therefore becoming the first female winner of The X Factor and the third winner after Shayne Ward and Steve Brookstein. She was mentored by Simon Cowell.
Lewis' voice was consistently praised by all three judges — Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh. Consistently, she was compared with divas such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. Lewis was also criticised, by some of the judges and in the press, for her lack of self-confidence. On the final night of the show, Take That joined Lewis on stage for a duet of their song "A Million Love Songs". After the performance, singer Gary Barlow told Cowell, "you've got a big responsibility because this girl is probably fifty times better than any contestant you have ever had on this show, and it's your responsibility to make her the best record you can, so please do that."
On the Oprah Winfrey Show on the 17 of March 2008, Simon Cowell said that it was during Lewis' performance of "Summertime" in the third live round of The X Factor (broadcast 28 October 2006) that he "could see her transform from a great singer into a superstar".
"A Moment Like This" was released on CD on 20 December 2006, and was available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December. It broke a world record after it was downloaded fifty-thousand times in thirty minutes. On 24 December, "A Moment Like This" was crowned the 2006 UK Christmas number-one single, having sold 105,381 copies, beating Take That's single "Patience", and outselling the rest of the Top 40's sales combined. It was reported that one chain was "shifting more than 100 of her CDs a minute".The single became the biggest-downloaded song in 2006, beating Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". The single stayed at number one for four weeks, and also stayed at the top spot in the Irish Singles Chart for six weeks. It went on to sell in the region of 1,000,000 copies.
A four-track download EP, "It's All for You", that she recorded before entering The X Factor was released digitally on 18 December 2006, through The Schizofreniks record label. The single was banned from several online stores by Lewis's record label, Sony BMG, and was therefore unable to chart.
In February 2007, Lewis signed a £5 million ($9.7 million) five album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records, and showcased for several American music executives at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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