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Hey Everyone,

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. I’ve been lucky enough to visit two countries I’ve never been to before and never imagined that I would!

I headed to Australia straight from LA - it was so beautiful flying in and looking out of the plane window, what a stunning country.

I spent about a week there, it was really incredible, I went to the MTV Awards and presented an award with Brian McFadden -he was good fun. I also performed a live event for fans and media, sang on the live final of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ (the dancers are so talented!) and also Sunrise (an early morning TV show)! It was super-busy but I got to perform for a lot of people and take my music to the world, which has always been my biggest dream!

I got to do a bit of sightseeing - I saw the famous bats in the Botanical Gardens (there are literally hundreds and they are SO big!), I did a ferry trip across from Circular Quay harbour (where the Opera House and Harbour Bridge are!) and went for a walk and dinner at Bondi. Lou was with me so it was nice to experience it together.

I can’t wait to go back to Australia and spend more time there. I only experienced Sydney on this visit but I hear the rest of the country is simply incredible!

I then flew onto Tokyo in Japan, which is where I’m currently writing!

I absolutely love it here- the people are so gracious and lovely. I’ve so enjoyed looking around and the shopping (especially in Shibuya & Harajuku!)

I’ve been fortunate enough to perform on some music shows here, Music Fair, Music Station and a breakfast TV called Mezamasshi, they were all incredible fun. I had a translator who came to all the shows with me called Hitomi, she was amazing and even taught me some Japanese words - Arigato!!!

I did a showcase in Tokyo where I performed 4 tracks - the night before there was an earthquake so we were all woken up by it at like 2am! We are staying in the tallest building in Tokyo and you could really feel it swaying! The following day there was another tremor while I was performing! Yikes!!!

I’ve had the most amazing experiences in these countries and I’m so excited about coming back and visiting more in the future, the support I have received is so overwhelming and I am so grateful and thankful to everyone who has made this trip so enjoyable.

So I now head back to LA to shoot my video for ‘Forgive Me’ - I’m not going to tell you the idea behind it, as I want it to be surprise, I’m super excited!

Luv

Leona

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Leona Lewis has survived a terrifying earthquake in Japan. The singer was in Tokyo promoting her album Spirit yesterday, when the natural disaster struck. Six people were injured and power was cut off to 4,500 homes.

Leona, 23, was sleeping in her penthouse suite at the 5-star Grand Hyatt Hotel when the tremors began.

‘Leona was really shaken up but called home to tell her family she was OK,’ a source tells the Daily Mirror.

The earthquake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale.

Source: Now Magazine

Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” keeps the lead on the Billboard Hot 100 as the track holds tight at No. 1 for a fifth non-consecutive week. This week’s biggest airplay gainer, Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” featuring Static Major, follows suit, gripping No. 2 for second week. Jordin Sparks’ “No Air” featuring Chris Brown stays at No. 3 for a third.

Usher’s “Love in This Club” featuring Young Jeezy climbs a notch 5-4 as Ray J & Yung Berg’s “Sexy Can I” ascends 6-5. Madonna, who is this week’s The Billboard 200 chart-topper, sees single “4 Minutes” featuring Justin Timberlake slip 4-6 as Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body” keeps the No. 7 spot warm for a second week.

Natasha Bedingfield scores her second Hot 100 top 10 ink as “Pocketful of Sunshine” zooms up 19-8. The British singer performed the track on last week’s “American Idol,” causing a 110% jump in digital sales to make the track this week’s biggest digital sales gainer.

Meanwhile, Sara Bareilles’ “Love Song” falls 8-9 as Jesse McCartney’s “Leavin’” scores a new peak moving 14-10, his first top 10 as an artist. However, you can see McCartney’s name in association with Lewis’ “Bleeding Love,” as a co-writer of that single.

Madonna’s next single “Give It 2 Me,” produced by the diva and the Neptunes, is this week’s hot shot debut, entering at No. 57. Busta Rhymes’ and Linkin Park’s rap/rock hybrid “We Made It” starts at No. 65; the track is the first single off the rapper’s forthcoming “I’m Blessed,” due June 17.

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Leona Lewis perfoms on ‘Video Hits’ live in Sydney, Australia. Credit goes to Aidan at the Official Forums! Click the pic below to view the full set!

April 29 - ‘Video Hits’ in Sydney, Australia (x6)

Same site, Jonas-Pandemonium, has totally ripped off our layout once again!

Congratulations on becoming such invalids that you have come to a point in life where you can’t even support your own website with your own creativity (not that you have any). If you appreciate our work then please feel free to leave a comment but shaming the layout with such a poor quality replica isn’t the way to go.

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Hey guys, I made some more Leona animations for you to use! Here are 4 animations from the ‘Footprints In The Sand’ video! Click HERE to view the full set! If you use please credit LeonaDaily.com. Loads more will be coming very soon!

Check out this stunning new photoshoot of Leona. She looks so, so beautiful. Click the pic below to view the full set!

Here comes an photoshoot which was taken back in 2006, backstage at Top Of The Pops in December, where Leona performed her #1 single ‘A Moment Like This’. Click the pic below to view the full set!

Unknown Shoot - Set 9 (x6)
‘Top Of The Pops’ Photo Session - 2006 (x6)

Credit: Aidan at the Official Forums

Images of singer Leona Lewis are featured on the windows of MTV headquarters in Times Square on May 1, 2008 in New York City. Looks like shes taking over Times Square! I love how they used candid pictures of her, showing the humble girl we all know and love! Click the pic below to view the full set!

Leona Featured On The Windows Of MTV Headquarters In Times Square, New York (x37)

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Leona Lewis pictured in her dressing room ahead of a performance at Carriage Works in Sydney, Australia. April 27, 2008. The pop-star waitress may be worth $12.8 million but it isn’t in her bank account. The 23-year-old chart-topper laughed when told yesterday she had made Britain’s Richest Young Millionaires list. Lewis joked she would be asking for a financial update when she finally returns home in several weeks from the international campaign to cement the success of her debut album Spirit. The former waitress and receptionist created chart history by being the first British The X Factor winner to go to No.1 in Australia and the US with both her hit single Bleeding Love and album.  Click the pic below to view the full set!

April 27 - Backstage at Carriage Works in Sydney, Australia (x6)

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Leona Lewis has made her success look effortless, but the UK singer knew she had one chance to nail it when she was asked to sing to a group of legendary US songwriters.

As Leona Lewis walked down the hallways of Oprah Winfrey’s television studio, her nerves started to fray.

‘‘All those pictures of famous actors and musicians and I was kinda freaking myself out about it,” Lewis recalls.

Sure, her debut single Bleeding Love had topped the charts back home in the UK and further afield in Australia.

But this was Lewis’s chance to break it big time in America, which previously hadn’t cared too much for winners of Britain’s talent quest The X Factor. They had enough American Idol contenders to contend with.

‘‘The thing for me was to remember it was an opportunity to share my music with people and share it on a very wide scale,” she says.

‘‘So I got totally lost in it and lost in my zone.”

Her performance on Oprah — and the television powerbroker’s ringing endorsement afterwards — was the catalyst for Lewis to create US chart history.

Bleeding Love was the first single by a British female to top the Billboard Hot 100 since Kim Wilde claimed the position in 1987 with You Keep Me Hangin’ On.

That achievement propelled Lewis’s debut album Spirit to the top spot last week and an international pop superstar was born.

Orchestrating this global success are two of the music industry’s most powerful men — Simon Cowell and Clive Davis. They formed a joint venture to launch Lewis into the same pop stratosphere as Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys, two careers Davis had been instrumental in guiding.

The first step was to introduce Lewis to the established hitmakers and a clutch of newcomers who have proven invaluable in giving her music a contemporary and a classic sound.

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