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3	Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a {{Britpop}} and RAndB artist, born in London to a [[{{UsefulNotes/Guyana}} Guyanese]] father and Irish mother, who rose to fame after winning ''Series/TheXFactor'' (The British version) and earning critical acclaim for her first album, ''Spirit'' in the USA. She is the show's most successful winner and second most successful contestant overall (behind Music/OneDirection).
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5	Known for songs like "Bleeding Love", [[Film/{{Avatar}} "I See You"]] and "Footprints In The Sand".
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7	!!Albums:
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9	* ''Spirit'' (2008)
10	* ''Echo'' (2009)
11	* ''Glassheart'' (2012)
12	* ''Christmas, with love'' (2013)
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14	!!Extended Plays
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16	* ''Hurt'' (2011)
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19	!! She and her music provide examples of:
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21	* AddictionSong: “Trouble”.
22	* AwardBaitSong: "My Hands", "I See You", many songs on her albums sound like this.
23	* BerserkButton: Being told that she's "not black enough" and/or shouldn't be eligible for the MOBO Awards. In addition to the discriminatory nature of such accusations, they tend to strike a personal note with Leona, who faced similar remarks on a daily basis at her secondary school, where the population was about two-thirds Afro-Caribbean students.
24	* BreakUpSong: "Better In Time", "Trouble".
25	* {{Britpop}}
26	* CoverAlbum: The ''Hurt'' [=EP=].
27	* FollowYourHeart: "Happy", "Collide".
28	* GriefSong: A whole lot of them.
29	* IncrediblyLongNote: The only one of her singles ''not'' to exhibit this is "I Got You".
30	* LoveNostalgiaSong: "Yesterday"
31	* LyricalDissonance: "Forgive Me" is a happy-go-lucky song about... cheating and begging your lover to forgive you.
32	** "Happy" is a powerful feminist-seeming song about... doing harmful things to oneself as long as they make you happy.
33	*** No it's not. It's about taking risks and living your life to the fullest instead of sitting on the sidelines because you're afraid of the possibility that you might have to face some ''emotional'' pain in your life - which is unavoidable. It's certainly not about intentionally harming oneself to make them happy.
34	* MelismaticVocals: She's been compared to Music/WhitneyHouston, Music/MariahCarey and Music/CelineDion because of them.
35	* NonAppearingTitle: None of her album names appear in any of the music.
36	* OneWomanWail: "Yesterday", "Bleeding Love" and many others.
37	* PowerBallad: "Yesterday", "Happy", "I Got You".
38	* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: Averted, big time. She became the first X-Factor contestant to experience mainstream worldwide success, while no other contestant from her series even had minor success in the UK. She was the show's most successful alumni from 2008, her rise to international stardom, to 2012/13, when she was eclipsed by boy band Music/OneDirection. She remains in a firm second place.
39	* SelfBackingVocalist: All the time.
40	* SingingVoiceDissonance: Her speaking voice can only be described as 'Young British Schoolgirl'.
41	* TruckDriversGearChange: “Happy”.
42	* AWildRapperAppears: Childish Gambino in "Trouble".

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