When I listened to it back I just could hear Ne-Yo’s voice. So I went in with them, we worked on it together, I put a vocal down, and then originally it was the other writer’s vocal on it as the male vocal. This song was presented and I just fell in love with it. I love collaborating with those guys, we get along so well and they just get me. I recorded this song about a year and a half ago and it was actually an idea that was presented to me from the same writers as One More Sleep. You’ve repackaged Christmas, With Love and released the magical new single, Kiss Me It’s Christmas, with Ne-Yo.
And with next month marking 15 years since Leona’s X Factor win – 15 goddamn years – we had the star relive some of her career highlights and her strong affiliation with the LGBTQ+ community. We caught up with Leona to discuss all of the above, as well as her love for drag and her favourite modern Christmas track. That’s kind of what I love about it, is that you’re seeing so much variation.” “All of the drag is very different and they all have different influences. “It’s an international show so we have drag queens from all over the world,” Leona tells GAY TIMES.
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Hosted by Graham Norton, the Eurovision-inspired series will see some of the world’s fiercest drag queens sing in front of a live audience and the “Pop Diva Panel”, which consists of Leona, Michelle Visage, Trixie Mattel and Vanessa Williams. “Shows went away over the past year,” she says, “so I’m obviously not as used to being out there!”Īs well as embarking on a cross-country tour and continuing to cement her status as the (British) Queen of Christmas, Leona will be making her reality television show comeback this year with Paramount+’s highly-anticipated Queen of the Universe.
It’s been five years since Leona embarked on her third headlining solo tour for her fifth studio album, I Am, so that’s where the nerves come in.
Released 19 November, the reissue features a stunning ballad with Ne-Yo, titled Kiss Me It’s Christmas, and a brand new take on The Bee Gees’ beloved disco hit If I Can’t Have You.īefore then, however, Leona will be embarking on a 16-date arena tour across the UK with Gary Barlow, where she will perform some of her most lauded hits, from Bleeding Love to Better in Time and Fire Under My Feet. “I’m everything, a mix of everything!” It has just been announced that the record-breaking British vocalist will be touring the UK next year in support of her repackaged holiday album Christmas, With Love, which includes her best-selling Christmas anthem One More Sleep. “I’m excited, but nervous,” says Leona Lewis.