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Leona Lewis was born in Stoke Newington, in the London borough of Hackney, to parents Aural Josiah, an Afro-Caribbean Guyanese youth worker, and Maria Lewis, a Welsh social worker.[10][11] At the age of five, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School,[11] and later the Italia Conti Academy[12] and the BRIT School.[13]
Lewis wrote her first song at the age of twelve,[14] and won a number of talent competitions.[15][16] After leaving school, Lewis took a number of jobs to pay to get into a recording studio, including waitressing and several receptionist jobs.[11][12][17]
She wrote and recorded a number of songs including a demo album of her own songs called Twilight, but the album was never released.[18] When she was fifteen years old, she recorded a version of Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" with music producer Marley J. Wills, after which Lewis and Wills were invited to the U.S. by Sony.[19] Wills commented that "Leona could hit the notes and I think she did it better than the original."[20]
When her career seemed to be going nowhere, she considered quitting the music industry until her boyfriend persuaded her to enter The X Factor.[15]
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