Alexandra Burke



Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewan Burke ( Islington , London , August 251988 ) is a British singer. They broke through in 2008 after the fifth edition of the British television talent programThe X Factor won by her coach Cheryl Cole .

Burke is a daughter of Melissa Bell, who for some time was a member of the pop group Soul II Soul . She was already at the age of nine on stage. When she was 12 she took part in the television talent program Star for a Night, which was won by Joss Stone .

In 2005 she took part in The X Factor, which she, however, did not make the finals. Burke had already made ​​her professional singing and performed mainly in clubs. In 2008, she ventured a new attempt in the fifth edition of the British X Factor . By coach Cheryl Cole, she was selected to participate. participate in the final ten shows Burke eventually won by the last show of the boy band JLS beat. The profit earned her a contract with an estimated value of a million pounds on to the record label Syco X Factor judge Simon Cowell .

The single Hallelujah, she sang in the last show, arrived a short time later at number one on the UK Singles Chart . Her version of Hallelujah is in the top 100 best-selling singles in Britainever and she is the first British singer to sell over a million copies of a single. The success of Burke led to even earlier versions of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley took the British charts. At Epic Records in February 2009, she signed a contract worth three million pounds to five albums in the United States to bring out.

The debut album Overcome was published in October 2009. The single Bad Boys, from the album, was a collaboration with rapper Flo Rida . In England, the single reached the first place.The songs on the album were produced by, among other Stargate , RedOne and Ne-Yo . ==Discography [ edit] == ===Albums [ edit] === ===Singles [ edit] ===