High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a Britishsinger and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor. A multi-platinum selling artist and three time Grammy Award nominee, her most successful single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one in over thirty countries around the world. She was proclaimed `Top New Artist` by Billboard magazine in 2008. Lewis has released two albums to date, Spirit and Echo, in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Spirit became the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007 in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, and made Lewis the first British solo artist to top the Billboard 200 with a debut album. It has sold 7.2 million copies worldwide. Lewis has currently sold over 10 million albums worldwide. In November 2008 she set a record in the UK for the fastest selling download-only release with her cover version of the Snow Patrol song "Run" which sold 69,244 copies in two days. Lewis`s debut tour, The Labyrinth, took place in 2010. Lewis`s third album, Glassheart, will be released in early 2012, and was preceded by "Collide", which became her seventh top five hit in the United Kingdom.