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British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis has a net worth of £12 million ($19m) as of April 2012, according to the Sunday Times UK Rich List. The glamourous Afro-Welsh pop and R&B songstress who hails from Hackney Empire , East London, rapidly hit the big time when she took the third X Factor crown in 2006.
With a strong vocal resemblance to the young Whitney Houston and a large mop of blonde corkscrew curls. 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", 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. 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. Lewis went on a 20-date UK arena tour in 2010 and signed a music publishing deal with BMG Rights Management. The Hackney-born singer's third album is due in 2011.
Born Leona Louise Lewis on 3 April 1985 in Islington, London, England, to Afro-Guyanese descent father, and Welsh, Italian and Irish descent mother. A vegetarian since she was 12, Lewis won PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2008 and Europe's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2009.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
---|---|---|---|
2011 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Glassheart (500,000 copies) |
$550,000 |
2011 |
Sale of Asset |
Value of her Hollywood Hills home |
$2,500,000 |
2009 |
Ticket Sales |
Estimated earnings from her tour, The Labyrinth |
$5,600,000 |
2008 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Echo (161,000 copies) |
$165,000 |
2006 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Spirit (7 million copies) |
$7,500,000 |
2006 |
Contract |
Five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records |
$9,700,000 |
2005 |
Contract |
Five-album deal with Syco |
$7,940,000 |
2005 |
Contract |
Recording deal with her mentor Simon Cowell’s label Syco |
$1,600,000 |