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Leona Lewis explains her accent (or lack of it)

leona lewisAnyone else wonder where Leona Lewis' British accent goes when she sings about how she keeps bleeding, keeps-keeps bleeding love?

She does too, actually. "I’ve always sang that way," she told me. "My accent is much more prominent when I speak. I was classically trained so the vowels that I sing are much more open because I think it has a better sound."

But she also says it could be that so many of her musical influences -- like Mariah Carey -- were American.

More from my chat with Leona here

PHOTO: J Records 

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