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After the performance, singer Gary Barlow told Cowell, 'you've got a big responsibility because this girl is probably fifty times better than any contestant you have ever had on this show, and it's your responsibility to make her the best record you can, so please do that.' On the final night of the show, Take That joined Lewis on stage for a duet of their song 'A Million Love Songs'. Vocal coach Mark Hudson also criticised a lack of star quality. Lewis was also criticised, by some of the judges and in the press, for her lack of self-confidence. Consistently, she was compared with divas such as Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. Lewis' voice was consistently praised by all three judges - Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh. After singing tracks such as 'Hero', 'Without you' and 'Baby one more time' at the bootcamp and judges' houses stages, she made it through to the final stages and was announced the winner on 16 December 2006, winning a ВЈ1 million recording contract, therefore becoming the first female winner of The X Factor and the third winner after Shayne Ward and Steve Brookstein.

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In 2006, Lewis auditioned for the third series of The X Factor, singing 'Over the Rainbow'. Unable to secure a contract, Lewis considered placing her music career on hold to attend university, before her boyfriend persuaded her to listen to Randy Jackson and the other producers she talked to and to enter The X Factor. Wills, who commented that 'Leona could hit the notes and I think she did it better than the original.' At one point, Lewis went to USA to try start her career and met with producer and American Idol judge Randy Jackson, who persuaded her to give UK another try and enter a competition. When she was fifteen years old, she recorded a version of Minnie Riperton's 'Lovin' You' with music producer Marley J. She wrote, recorded and produced a number of songs including two demo albums, Twilight and Best Kept Secret. Lewis also has said her biggest idol as a singer growing up was the African-American soprano Leontyne Price. After leaving school, Lewis took a number of jobs to pay to get into a recording studio, including waitressing and several receptionist jobs.

She wrote her first song at the age of twelve, and won a number of talent competitions. There she learned guitar and piano and also worked hard to write her own songs in order to be taken seriously as an accomplished musician. At the age of five, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, and later the Italia Conti Academy and the BRIT School. Leona Lewis was born in the London Borough of Islington, to parents Aural Josiah 'Joe' Lewis, an English youth worker of Afro-Caribbean Guyanese descent, and Maria Lewis, a Welsh social worker of Italian/Irish descent.

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