Check out the video for “Happy”, which is the first single from Leona Lewis’ upcoming second studio album “Echo”. Written by OneRepublic’s vocalist Ryan Tedder.
“Echo” will be released on November 17th in the U.S. and Leona’s visit to Germany and London to promote the effort had been set earlier last week but both of the gigs were canceled because she was attacked by a man identified as Peter Kowalczyk during a book signing on October 14.
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I must say that I’m surprised how so many people are critical of her and her ethnicity. She is a beautiful person with a lovely voice and can out sing many of the current top singers in the country. Everyone from Mariah to Whitney to Jennifer Hudson have sang her praises on her talent.
I think her choice in pop was a smart direction because there is no way for her to compete in the R&B scene when you have Beyonce, Rihanna, Mariah, Whitney, Alicia and others releasing albums this year. There is no way she would be able to compete in that genre at this time. I also think that this is what separates her from them. She is not all R&B.
I definitely agree that this song is similar to “Halo”. But maybe it is because the song was intentionally written for Leona but it was given to Beyonce cause Leona didn’t have time to record the song. Personally I was upset that the song didn’t go to Leona because she would have done a better job. I love Beyonce, don’t get me wrong, but as someone put it in early post, Leona’s clear (not raspy) vocal range is unique and powerful. The only other person that can pull this off is X-tina, Mariah, Monica, and even Whitney (on a good day).
H – A – P – P – Y Wednesday as Usual!
no doubt leona has a great voice and she deserves her place as a recording arstist but let me tell you she needs to be realistic because she doesn’t special enough to the audience that happy song sounds like a deja vu . major error don’t start a song with so little instrument because it will sound like a church song and won’t be played n the radio second this song lacks originality because the hook is not original it has that halo kind of sound and sometimes u expected her to take it higher with the rythmes and the way certain phrases are sung but she slows down killing the excitement she has all it takes to put out a cacthy record with her own signture but i don’t know what went wrong maybe she is with the wrong team hope she has better songs on her album because happy wont be really good news for sales courage and all the best to her i know that it is not easy but she needs a reality check
Let me get this straight: so because she’s black, she MUST sing R&B music?
Simply nice! It gave me goose bumps. WOW!!
CORNEY