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Leona Lewis might seem like a walking, talking advertisement for sugar and spice and all things nice, but don't be fooled. The girl's got talent by the truckload and, boy, is she armed
Harder to pin down than the Beckhams, and with an entourage to boot, the 22-year-old girl-done-good from Hackney in London's East End is on a fast track to becoming the biggest and best diva this country has ever produced.
Reproduced from March 08 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. This month's issue on sale now.
If 2007 was Leona's for the taking - her single, Bleeding Love, chalked up a whopping 787,652 copies (that's over 250,000 more than Rihanna's Umbrella), and her album Spirit was the fastest-selling debut album in the UK ever - then the message from Team Leona is clear: you ain't seen nothing yet. She's the talk of the Brits (with four nominations), and this month she's set to take on America, too.
Sounds impressive. But can the painfully shy Leona we grew to know and love on The X Factor, whose biggest claim to fame up until that point was winning a Yates Wannabe Talent Contest in 2004, possibly live up to all the hype?
'I hope I can,' she says softly, when we sit down with her at an east London studio. Dressed demurely in a pink silk top, long black cardigan, jeans and suede-look boots, she looks amazing.
'I don't feel any pressure to be demanding and I'm not the kind of girl to have tantrums, so hopefully I can just associate myself with the positive aspects of being a diva - making great music and selling records.'
Here, Leona talks us through her whirlwind year, which included picking up the trophy for Ultimate Newcomer at our very own Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Of The Year 2007 Awards in November...
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