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中 文 名 丽安娜·刘易斯
外 文 名 Leona Lewis
别 名 Leona Louise Lewis
国 籍 英国
星 座 白羊座
身 高 173cm
出 生 地 英国 伦敦 伊斯林顿
出生日期 1985年4月3日
职 业 歌手
毕业院校 BRIT School
经纪公司 Faculty Music Media
艺人简介
丽安娜·刘易斯(Leona Lewis),1985年4月3日出生于英国伦敦,英国流行女歌手。
2006年她参加第三届英国电视选秀节目《X-Factor》,并获得冠军;2007年发行个人首张音乐专辑《Spirit》;2008年她受邀担任第29届北京奥运会闭幕式伦敦八分钟主唱。同年12月被Billboard杂志评为"最佳新人"。2009年其发行个人第二张音乐专辑《Echo》,并为好莱坞电影《阿凡达》献唱主题曲《I See You》;2012年她发行个人第三张音乐专辑《Glassheart》。
2006年,丽安娜·刘易斯参加了X Factor的第三季演唱Over The Rainbow在同年12月16日夺得冠军,同时赢得100万英镑录音合约。同年年底,利昂娜推出首张个人单曲“A Moment Like This”。
她的首张专辑《Spirit》,是英国和爱尔兰2007年最畅销的处女专辑,也是这两个国家2007年销量最高的专辑。这张专辑同样使她成为第一个以个人身份发行首张专辑便在美国Billboard专辑榜上夺得冠军的英国歌手。
2008年3月17日,利昂娜在美国脱口秀Oprah Winfrey Show表演“Bleeding Love”。这是利昂娜第一次在美国电视上演出;6月27日利昂娜在英国伦敦Hyde Park参加南非前任总统纳尔逊·罗利赫拉赫拉·曼德拉的90岁生日,并演唱“Bleeding Love”与“Better In Time”;8月24日利昂娜·刘易斯和Led Zeppelin乐队的吉他手Jimmy Page在2008年北京奥运会闭幕式伦敦八分钟上表演了“Whole Lotta Love”,代表东道主英国进行交接,邀请大家去2012年伦敦夏季奥运会。全世界约3亿观众观看了她的表演。
丽安娜·刘易斯的第二张专辑《回声》, 2009年初开始制作。
2009年11月2日,丽安娜在伦敦的Hackney Empire举行了她的英国首次个人演唱会,表演了两张专辑中的一些歌曲。《回声》发行首周便空降英国专辑榜冠军,并空降爱尔兰、奥地利和瑞士专辑榜前十位。
《快乐》是专辑《回声》发行的第一首单曲。这首单曲由丽安娜和Ryan Tedder和Evan Bogart合作写成,并由Ryan Tedder制作。单曲在2009年9月15日发行,首周空降英国单曲榜亚军,并空降奥地利、比利时、德国、爱尔兰、日本和瑞士单曲榜前十位。2010年,她演唱的《I See You》被提名第67届金球奖最佳原创歌曲。
2012年3月2日赴香港参加品牌派对,现场她连唱六七首歌,表演持续半小时;10月15日她发行个人第三张专辑《Glassheart》。12月31日丽安娜·刘易斯在央视2013元旦晚会上表演了两首歌曲《I see you》、《Bleeding love》。
2013年,1月15日发行单曲《I miss U missing me》;10月25日获邀出席英国航空公司在香港举办的大型派对,现场演绎三首抒情歌曲,包括英航宣传曲《Flying away》以及代表作《Bleeding love》;11月推出圣诞单曲《One More Sleep》。
2016年7月,她将首次登上百老汇舞台,在音乐剧《Cats》中饰演Grizabella一角。
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter and animal welfare campaigner. She was born and raised in the Islington, London, where she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Music. 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 it broke a world record for having 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records.
Lewis's success continued with the release of her debut album, Spirit, in 2007; it went 10x platinum in the United Kingdom, while the lead single, "Bleeding Love", spent seven weeks at number one. She achieved international recognition with the album in 2008, when she became the first British female solo artist to top the US Billboard 200 album chart in more than 20 years. Spirit has sold more than eight million copies worldwide, and "Bleeding Love" peaked at number one in over 30 countries, becoming the best-selling single of 2008. As a result, she was proclaimed 'Top New Artist' by Billboard in 2008. Under the guidance of Cowell and Davis, Lewis released her second UK number-one album Echo and recorded the theme song for the film Avatar in 2009, while embarking on her first UK arena tour, The Labyrinth, in 2010.
In 2011, Lewis released the non-album single "Collide", a collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii, and her first extended play, Hurt: The EP. Her third album, Glassheart, was released in 2012. It marked a new creative direction for Lewis, drawing inspiration from dubstep and electronic music. However, it failed to match the commercial performance of her two previous albums, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart and becoming her first to not be certified platinum. Lewis began to record material for her first Christmas album during her Glassheart Tour, which took place in mid 2013. Christmas, with Love was released later that year. Its lead single, "One More Sleep", peaked at number three in the UK. With this chart entry, Lewis became the first British female solo artist to achieve eight top 5 singles, surpassing Olivia Newton-John's record of seven.
With a career starting in 2006, Lewis is the second best-selling act to have emerged from The X Factor franchise, having sold 20 million records worldwide.Lewis has won one Bambi Award, an MTV Video Music Award and three World Music Awards. She is also a seven-time Brit Award and three-time Grammy Award nominee. In 2014, Lewis made her film debut in the supporting role of Elena in the romantic comedy musical, Walking on Sunshine. Amongst her many awards, in 2015 she also received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Music Pioneer Award at the United Nations. In July 2016, Lewis will make her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.
On 12 February 2015, Lewis uploaded a video to YouTube which showed the singer performing a new song called "Fire" in a studio.On 16 February, she uploaded a video to her Instagram account which showed her recording vocals in the studio for new tracks.On 14 April 2015 she performed an intimate showcase in London, where she revealed "Fire Under My Feet" to be the lead single from her fifth studio album. She also showcased four other songs, "I Am", "I Got You", "Ladders" and "Thank You".Shortly after, the album title was confirmed to be I Am. "Fire Under My Feet" premiered on BBC Radio 2 on 11 May 2015.Lewis later revealed that I Am would be released on 11 September 2015, in the UK. On 13 June 2015, Leona Lewis premiered another song from the album, called "Essence of Me," via Graham Norton on BBC Radio 2. In July 2015 "I Am" and "Thunder" were released as second and third single from the album respectively. "Thunder" serves as the lead single from the album in the US.
On 11 September 2015, following the album's release, Lewis announced her third live tour with an initial leg of fourteen UK dates. On the tour Lewis will visit major cities including Birmingham, London, Cardiff and Glasgow. On 12 December the singer performed at the The X Factor UK final alongside fellow X Factor UK winner Ben Haenow, on the show the duet consisted of Lewis's song "Run" and Haenow's "Slamming Doors". That same month Lewis performed a cover of "Girl Crush" with Adam Lambert. In May 2016 the performance earned the pair a CMT Music Award nomination.On 18 March 2016, Lewis headlined Cirque du Soleil's One Night for One Drop performance in Las Vegas.On 26 May 2016, it was announced that Lewis would make her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the July 2016 revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.
In June 2016, after two years with the label, it was revealed that Leona and Island Records parted ways due to "something that didn't click." Later that month she released the song "(We All Are) Looking For Home," a charity single created in collaboration with Diane Warren for the Vanderpump Dog Foundation's public service announcement in opposition to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.