Source - BBC
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X-Factor winner & upcoming megastar Leona Lewis has struck a £5 million record deal with Clive Davis, the talent spotter who found Whitney Houston.

Lewis, aged just 21, said: "I am just overwhelmed. I can't believe everything has happened so fast, from winning the X Factor to coming to LA."

The deal will see Leona release 5 albums under Davis but will continue to work with her manager Simon Cowell, who has always maintained that Lewis is the next Whitney or Mariah.

Lewis will begin the production of her first studio album in April.