Not every big star that emerged from talent-contest television shows are Americans. In Britain, where the singing-talent show craze started, a young London girl named Leona Lewis won the third edition of the British show "The X Factor" in 2006.
The Islington-raised mezzo-soprano singer has released two albums (2007's Spirit and 2009's Echo), and in 2008 she enjoyed transatlantic success when her single "Bleeding Love" topped the Billboard singles charts in America. She is only the sixth British female solo recording artist to top the American singles charts (the first five were, in chronological order, Petula Clark, Lulu, Sheena Easton, Bonnie Tyler, and Kim Wilde) and she was the first to do so since . . . 1987.
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