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Leona Lewis’ career has blossomed over the past ten years.<\/p>\n
While the Brit School alum was “discovered” on ITV’s X Factor in the early 2010s, she has gone on to carve a real path for herself in the music industry.<\/p>\n
Her most recent venture includes voicing and singing as London Lilly, an animated character named after her home city and her dog, in DOGGYLAND – the kids’ TV show written, produced and starring Snoop Dogg.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk<\/strong><\/em>, Leona confessed she was looking for a way to entertain her newborn daughter when she discovered Snoop had an entire kids’ album (Kids Hits, Vol 1): “I used to play it for my kid when she was little and it was the only thing that would stop her crying! And the only thing I could listen to that would not drive me insane,” she laughed.<\/p>\n “So, I reached out and I said: ‘I just want to say I love what you’re doing, if you ever need a vocalist I’m here.'” Before long, Snoop got in touch with Leona, and London Lilly was born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Leona was ultimately thrilled with how her DOGGYLAND collab went and is keen to work with Snoop again in the future.<\/p>\n “I actually did a gig awhile back,” she recalled. “And he was on the same show. He was so lovely and so chill … I didn’t get much time with him but I think we’re going to do more together. We should do a whole album!”<\/p>\n Before Leona gets too carried away with starting a collaborative album with Snoop, she has a number of massive Christmas shows to get through first.<\/p>\n Leona recently announced a string of shows taking place throughout the UK in December on a tour she has dubbed “Christmas With Love 2023”.<\/p>\n She’ll be hitting some of the country’s biggest venues, including London’s Eventim Apollo, Bournemouth Windsor Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, and many more.<\/p>\n While she has a fair few festive tracks to bring to life at these glitzy events, Leona is no doubt best known for her chart-topping track One More Sleep.<\/p>\n Although it has no doubt become a mainstay in many Christmas playlists around the world, is Leona sick of hearing her own voice when she walks into every shop in December?<\/p>\n “I’m not!” she laughed. “Not yet. I haven’t got to that point. I hope I get to that point, that’d be amazing because that would mean it is everywhere! I love that it comes back every year and it gets bigger and bigger.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pop stars, rock stars, and artists around the world release Christmas songs every year – but somehow Leona’s One More Sleep has stood the test of time, and she believes she knows why: “Honestly, I really believed in that song and I made that song from my soul.<\/p>\n “And it was a little bit before other artists did that. The first year I was so excited and the next year I didn’t hear it. The next year? Didn’t hear it. Then – suddenly! – it just resurged. I was like, amazing, let’s keep going!”<\/p>\n Would she ever consider writing and recording another Christmas song or album, though? “No” she confirmed. “It’s done. That’s a wrap, that’s it.”<\/p>\n Buy tickets to Leona Lewis’ Christmas tour here<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n Watch Leona Lewis as London Lilly in DOGGYLAND here<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Leona Lewis’ career has blossomed over the past ten years. While the Brit School alum was “discovered” on ITV’s X Factor in the early 2010s, she has gone on to carve a real path for herself in the music industry. Her most recent venture includes voicing and singing as London Lilly, an animated character …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}