Little wonder, as she had to pace herself: During the next seven hours she would be conducting 25 back-to-back interviews with U.K. In a central London broadcast studio on a sunny October morning, Lewis was doing a good job of keeping her own excitement in check. That combination made me feel that she was a special new talent.” She’s also passionate about music - it really runs in her soul. “But she also can feel the lyric very sensitively.
“Leona has one of those very, very special voices that’s expressive and has an incredible range,” said Davis on why - of all the new artists who regularly cross his desk - he chose to back her so wholeheartedly. talent show winner, but Sony Music chief creative officer Clive Davis has no doubt she deserves every bit of her success. When it came, it catapulted her to unprecedented heights for a U.K. Such success had been a long time coming for Lewis, who attended the United Kingdom’s BRIT School for the Performing Arts and spent much of her teenage years writing and recording in search of that elusive break. 1 in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Billboard’s European Hot 100 Singles chart. The international breakout single, “Bleeding Love” - co-written by Jesse McCartney and OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder - hit No. It also earned Lewis three nominations at the Grammy Awards and four at the BRITs. Lewis’ “Spirit” sold 6.5 million copies worldwide (according to Sony), including 1.6 million in the United States (according to Nielsen SoundScan) and 2.8 million in the United Kingdom (according to the Official Charts Co.). A criminal investigation is ongoing, according to Syco head of media Ann-Marie Thomson. The Internet leak was dealt with in similarly succinct fashion, as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s anti-piracy unit teamed with law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. In the immediate aftermath of the assault, Lewis canceled promotional trips to Germany and France, and pulled out of a high-profile U.K. They’re usually at different things that I do.
My dad and my brothers weren’t there (either). The main thing is that I’m still alive.”īy the time Billboard caught up with her, two weeks after the incident, she even was able to smile about it, particularly the tabloid reports that Lou Al-Chamaa - the childhood sweetheart with whom Lewis still lives in her working-class home neighborhood of Hackney in northeast London - rushed in to tackle her assailant. “It was a shock,” Lewis said of the attack, which left her bruised. Then, more dramatically, Lewis was assaulted October 14 during a London book signing for her autobiography, “Dreams.” The man accused of punching her in the head was committed under the United Kingdom’s Mental Health Act. While the promotional campaign for Lewis’ debut was hitch-free, the setup for its follow-up, “Echo” - released November 16 in the United Kingdom on Cowell’s Syco Music and a day later in the United States on J - has been anything but smooth.įirst, in mid-August, three songs from the album sessions leaked onto the Internet, reportedly after Syco’s IT system was hacked. Nor, one imagines, exactly how Clive Davis, Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment envisaged the comeback push for the British singer. Not words one would normally associate with Leona Lewis, the squeaky-clean winner of “The X Factor,” who went on to stunning worldwide success with her debut album, “Spirit.”
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