FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
LEONA LEWIS
SONGWRITERS: SIMON COWELL; RICHARD PAGE; DAVID KREUGER
& PER MAGNUSSON
COUNTRY: U. K.
ÁLBUM: SPIRIT
LABEL: SONY BMG
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2007
Leona Louise
Lewis(born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, actress, model and
activist. She was born and raised in the London Borough of Islington, and she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
in Croydon. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A
Moment Like This",
peaked at number one for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart and broke a world record by reaching
50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a
five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records.
Lewis's
success continued with the release of her debut studio album, Spirit (2007),
which was certified 10× platinum in the UK and became the fourth best-selling album of the
2000s and
one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. According to the Official
Charts Company,
Spirit is the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the 21st century.
The lead single, "Bleeding Love", spent seven weeks at number one in the
UK and was the best-selling single of 2007. In the US, it was the best-selling single of
2008 and Lewis was proclaimed Best New Artist by Billboard the same year. In 2009, she released
her second studio album, Echo,
and recorded the theme song, "I See You", for the film Avatar.
In 2011,
Lewis released the single "Collide", a collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii, and her debut extended play, Hurt: The EP. Her third studio album, Glassheart (2012), marked a new creative
direction for Lewis, drawing inspiration from dubstep
and electronic music. She began to record material for her first
Christmas album during her Glassheart Tour, which took place in mid 2013. Christmas,
with Love was
released later that year and its lead single, "One More Sleep", peaked at number three in the UK. With
this chart entry, Lewis became the first British female solo artist to reach
the top five with eight singles, surpassing Olivia
Newton-John's
record of seven.
In 2014, she
made her film debut in Walking on Sunshine, and her fourth studio album, I Am,
was released the following year. In 2016, Lewis made her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the revival of Andrew
Lloyd Webber's
musical Cats, and the following year, she signed a modelling
contract with Wilhelmina Models. She then collaborated with Calum Scott on the single "You Are The Reason"(2018), and had a recurring role on the American
television series The Oath(2019).
In 2021, Lewis joined the Paramount Plus show Queen of The Universe
as a judge.
"Footprints
in the Sand" is a song recorded by British singer Leona Lewis for her debut studio album Spirit(2007).
It was written by Simon Cowell, David Kreuger, Per Magnusson, Richard
Page, and
produced by Steve Mac. The song was digitally released as Lewis's
third single on 9 March 2008 in the United Kingdom. Sony BMG and Syco Music launched it as a double A-side with "Better in Time", and "You Bring Me Down" as the
B-side.
It is a R&B and pop song composed with a tempo of sixty
beats per minute. It was written in a period of one day at Page's home in Malibu,
California,
with Cowell giving the idea to base it on the Christian poem "Footprints". The single's music video was filmed by
British diretor Sophie Muller in Johannesburg, South Africa. The
video describes social problems within the city, but ends with a message of hope. "Footprints in the Sand" became the
official theme of the 2008 version of biennial charity programme Sport Relief, by BBC.
The song
received positive reviews from music critics, some of them noting its gospel sounds and Lewis's vocals being
compared to American R&B singer Mariah Carey. "Footprints in the Sand" charted as
a separate single in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the European Hot 100 Singles, whilst the double A-side appeared in Germany and
Switzerland, and was certified gold in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry(BPI), in 2008. In the same year, Lewis performed the
song for the first time in the UK live on the television programme Dancing on Ice. In 2009, the song was covered by Lucie Jones, a contestant of The X Factor,
and by Julia Star from Swiss programme Die grössten Schweizer Talente.
You walked with me
Footprints in the sand
And helped me understand
Where I'm going
You walked with me
When I was all alone
With so much unknown
Along the way
I heard you say
I promise you
I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sorrow
And despair
And I'll carry you
When you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
I see my life
Flash across the sky
So many times have I
Been so afraid
And just when I
Thought I lost my way
You gave me strength to carry on
Thats when I heard you say
I promise you
I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sorrow and despair
And I'll carry you
When you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
When I'm weary
Well I know you'll be there
And I can feel you
When you say
I promise you
I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sadness and despair
And I'll carry you
When you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
When your heart is full of sadness and despair
And I'll carry you
When you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand.
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