Leona Lewis Tickets

Short Biography

Global singing sensation Leona Lewis announces her first ever UK and Ireland Arena Tour. Concert goers can expect stunning state of the art staging and visual effects as well as choreography and an incredible live band.  Leona will play songs from her smash hit debut album Spirit (such as Bleeding Love, Better In Time and Run) as well as tracks from her forthcoming new studio album Echo, including the brand new single Happy.

No stranger to performing live, Leona has given countless performances around the world at some of the most prestigious events on the planet, including Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Concert at Hyde Park and representing Great Britain last year at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics alongside Jimmy Paige and David Beckham.  To date though, Leona is yet to tour live, which will make this tour another landmark occasion for the East London girl who leapt to fame in 2006 and has not looked back since. 
 
Leona releases her brand new album Echo on November 16th.  It is the highly anticipated follow-up to Leona's 2007 debut album Spirit, which took the world by storm, selling over six million copies globally.  Along the way Leona earned herself countless award nominations and became the UK's biggest selling debut artist of 2007 and 2008.  Echo promises big emotions, sweeping and widescreen melodies and spine tingling vocals.  The album sees Leona teaming up with A-list writers and producers John Shanks, Max Martin and Ryan Tedder.

In-depth Biography
A striking young woman with a strong vocal resemblance to the young Whitney Houston and a large mop of blonde corkscrew curls, Leona Lewis won the third series of the British reality talent show The X Factor in a landslide. (For non-Brits: The X Factor is the revamped follow-up to the original U.K. talent search, Pop Idol, of which American Idol is the massively successful U.S. version; AI's Simon Cowell is the show's lead judge and executive producer.) Born and raised in the Islington section of north London, Lewis won a talent show at the age of 13 and devoted herself to music thereafter, eventually graduating from the prestigious BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. While working as a receptionist and pizza waitress and writing her own material, Lewis auditioned for The X Factor in the summer of 2006 and won the third series competition in December of that year. Lewis' debut single, a soulful cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This" (Clarkson's own debut American Idol showcase single), was the number one single in the U.K. at the turn of the year, including the coveted "Christmas number one." Along with her TV-driven U.K. success, Lewis signed an American recording deal with Clive Davis' J Records in February 2007. By the end of the year, she had launched her debut album, Spirit, in England, and watched it go to the top of the charts (along with the single "Bleeding Love"). The American release followed in 2008, and with similar success; it reached the top of the Billboard 200 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Album. Echo, Lewis' follow-up, was issued in 2009, featuring collaborations with Ryan Tedder, Xenomania, and Timbaland. Also in 2009, Lewis released the single, "I See You (Theme from Avatar)." Written by James Horner and Simon Franglen, song was featured on the soundtrack to the hit James Cameron film Avatar. The following year, Lewis promoted her album Echo with the Labyrinth tour. Inspired by the 1986 fantasy film of the same name, the tour was showcased on the DVD/CD The Labyrinth Tour Live from The O2 in 2010. In 2011, Lewis released her third studio album Glassheart showcasing writing and production by a bevy of names including Ryan Tedder, Fraser T. Smith, Dallas Austin and others and featuring the single, "Collide." ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi