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Leona Lewis - A moment like this…

… is set to become the UK’s Christmas Number one single after Leona sensationally won the third series of the X Factor tonight.

Although lovable Ray put in a great show too, Leona was simply superb and proved any doubters that she is potentially the best talent to emerge from Britain for a long time,

You can find out how to buy her single over here: Leona Lewis - a moment in time

Add comment December 16th, 2006

Week 5 - the Leona Factor

Leona Lewis once again stole the show this evening, with a heart-rending performance of Sorry (seems to be the hardest word), that had even Simon Cowell describing it as ‘world class’.

I actually think I’d prefer it in some way if they scrapped the whole competition idea right here, and just gave Leona 5 songs to sing each Saturday night - I’d more more than happy with that. If there was ever a sure-fire winner, then this is your girl!

Speaking of favourites, Ben Mills seems to be fading as time goes on. This week’s performance of Aerosmith was just lacking the kind of magic that you really need at this stage in the competition (in fact, I might even go so far as to say the MacDonald’s did better than him. Then again, probably not!)

Someone who really is finishing strongly is Robert Allen - after last week’s shock where he was saved when Louis Walsh decided to eliminate Ashley, Robert came back with what was easily his best performance so far, and second only to Leona on the night.

Elsewhere, Eton Road were good, but not as good as last week, and cheeky chappy Ray continues to do what he does best, this week ’swingifying’ Queen’s Crazy little thing called love.

Nikitta Angus was eliminated by her own mentor Simon, when he was forced to choose between her and Ray when the public left them both in the bottom two (to Louis and Sharon’s obvious delight!)

Add comment November 11th, 2006

Live Show # 3 - Leona, Leona, Leona

There is absolutely no doubt about it - Leona Lewis absolutely shone giving her performance of Summertime, as smooth and classy a rendition of any song I’ve ever heard.

For someone who does genuinely seem so overcome when on stage, her vocals were incredible, and she really threw the gauntlet down for the rest of the X Factor contestants.

In a shock, there were two eliminations this week.  In another shock, the Macdonald brothers are still in (although to be fair, they did better than several acts this week.) Eliminated by public vote was Dionne, who has struggled on stage despite having great vocals - I think Simon was on the money with his ‘backing singer’ comment, at least until she takes a dance class or two.

In a shock, Ashley McKenzie was also one of the bottom three, and narrowly escaped elimination himself through Louis’ choice to eliminate Kerry.  (Which is think is the first sensible thing Louis has done all series - or maybe ever!)

Other stand out performances tonight were:

Eton Road - a nice rendition of Mack the knife in a themed show that doesn’t really suit boy-bands

Robert Allen - left the craziness behind for a cool rendition of My Bojangles

Ben Mills - quality as ever, although he ought to realise that you don’t have to shout to show emotion when you’re singing!

Roll on Abba week next week, where we predict Eton Road to shine (anyone remember Erasure’s Abbaesque EP?!)

Add comment October 30th, 2006