18 years ago, Leona Lewis cut us open with "Bleeding Love" and we've been enthralled ever since. After nearly two decades of success, the GRAMMY-nominated songstress is bringing hits from her debut album, as well as tracks from her holiday LP to Las Vegas for a residency this November.
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Somehow despite all the accolades and generations of fans, Lewis has never done a proper US tour. "Yeah, so I've performed, I've done a few TV shows, but I've never toured here, never a full live show," the UK star shares.
Now fans who have waited years can finally see Lewis perform at an all-new Las Vegas residency at Voltaire at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. "I'm really, really excited to actually get the chance and the opportunity to come back and perform songs from my first album and songs from my Christmas album," reveals Lewis. "I'm just so excited to actually get to do that here because I've always had a lot of love from here, felt very supported by people here, so excited to share this part of me that I never got to the first time around."
Leona explains that the room is very intimate, and she gets to be "very up close and personal" with fans at the show. "I feel like people are gonna be in for a real treat. It's a show that I have built from the heart because I created it with my husband and a lot of my little girl's input as well. So it's gonna be really fun. It's going to be family friendly, and just joyful, good vibes, lots of love in the room."
In addition to holiday favorites from Leona Lewis, the singer will share songs from her debut album and beyond, including the everlasting, still amazing, "Bleeding Love," which continues to find new fans throughout the years.
"I've been seeing a lot of people do videos of it, from literally like men in their 80s singing the song to girls that are like 10 years old singing the song and doing the runs and the ad libs," she smiles. "Honestly it's so beautiful to me how much it's connected with people on different levels, in different ways across generations. That's very special, you know, and for me music is my way of communicating, music is my way of putting love out there, so to feel that received is a really special thing."
For more from Leona Lewis on motherhood, her Vegas show, and the incredible honor recently bestowed to her, check out the full chat with Bru above.