Leona Lewis Reveals Her Daughter Helped Rekindle Her Musical Purpose

Leona Lewis feels she has found her purpose in music again after becoming a mother.

The 40-year-old singer, who hasn’t released a full album since 2015’s I Am and had been mainly creating Christmas music, admitted she felt “disconnected” from her career for a long time.

After she and her husband, Dennis Jauch, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Carmel Allegra, three, in July 2022, the Bleeding Love star says she has been able to let herself sing “from that place of being open again”.

The X Factor 2006 champion is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column as saying: “I started getting into the studio last year. I have been working on music and figuring out what I want to say. What do I want to sing about? How do I want to be intentional and not add to the noise, but, hopefully, just bring something authentic and very me?”

Leona’s little girl gave her a new source of motivation.

She continued: “I had a little girl a few years ago. So that has opened my world up in a lot of ways. I'm singing from that place of being open again.”

The three-time Grammy nominee is currently onstage with her A Starry Night shows at Voltaire at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada, which continues through January 2026.

And the residency marks what feels like a “new chapter” for her.

Leona said: “I've turned 40. I've got my baby girl. I'm writing from a different perspective now.”

The Here I Am singer is drawing inspiration from Adele’s Las Vegas residency, where Adele performs her catalogue, talks to the crowd, and shares personal stories.

In September, Leona, who feels “very proud” to have been offered her own Las Vegas residency, told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “I love that about [Adele's] show.

“She has the most incredible voice, but I just loved her chatting and sharing life with everyone.

“It’s about pulling back the curtain and knowing who the artist really is and why we sing the songs we sing.

“The fact that it is so intimate is one of the reasons why I wanted to do the residency here...

“It has been 20 years since I stepped on the scene with X Factor, and a lot has happened in my life.

“This is not just a show. This is me sharing what I’ve been through, how I started, why I wrote certain songs, and why I performed certain songs. It’s the culmination of my life’s work in music.”