Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewan Burke (born August 25, 1988 in Islington , London ) is a British pop singer .
Private life
Burke is the daughter of Soul II soul singer Melissa Bell , with whom she had a very close relationship until her death (2017). She repeatedly offered to donate a kidney to help her with her illness. However, her mother refused.
Career
In her homeland, Burke became known for winning the fifth season of the talent show The X Factor , which was broadcast on the evening program of the ITV television channel between August and December 2008 .
During the season, she and the other X-Factor finalists recorded a cover version of Mariah Carey's song Hero , which was number one on the UK charts for three weeks in November 2008 .
In the final show on December 13, 2008, she prevailed against the four-piece band JLS and the singer Eoghan Quigg with 58% of the total of eight million audience votes and received a record deal worth one million British pounds with Syco Music / Sony BMG .
One day after the finale, in the week before Christmas, Burke's debut single Hallelujah , a cover version of the 1984 hit by Leonard Cohen , was released in the UK . According to Simon Cowell , inventor of The X Factor, 500,000 pre-orders were already before the finale received for the single. Hallelujah immediately rose to number 1 on the UK charts over Christmas, making it number one for Christmas in the UK. In the sales statistics for 2008, the song was also number 1 ahead of the X-Factor joint effort Hero .
It then took nine months to finish their debut album Overcome . In the week before its release, the song Bad Boys was released as a single in early October 2009 , a collaboration with US rapper Flo Rida . With this, too, she immediately jumped back to number 1 on the charts in Great Britain and Ireland . The album followed to the top of the charts and was also able to place itself internationally. Four more songs from it came into the British Top 20, with Start Without You she even had her third number one placement.
In early 2011, Burke went on a UK tour before starting work on a new album. Shortly before release, she left Simon Cowell's label and joined RCA . In March 2012 she released the single Elephant there in collaboration with DJ and producer Erick Morillo . The song reached number 3 on the UK charts. Two months later, the song Let It Go was released immediately before the album , which only came in at number 33. The album Heartbreak on Hold then did not go beyond number 18 in the album charts and stayed in the top 75 for only two weeks. Only a little later, Burke announced that she was working on an album for the USA, the focus of which should be R&B again.
Discography
Studio albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
2010 | Overcome |
DE60 (1 week) DE |
AT54 (3 weeks) AT |
CH54 (3 weeks) CH |
UK1 × 2
(59 weeks)UK |
First published: October 19, 2010
|
2012 | Heartbreak on Hold | - | - | - |
UK18 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: June 10, 2012
|
2018 | The Truth Is | - | - | - |
UK16 (1 week) UK |
First published: March 16, 2018
|
Singles
solo
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
2008 |
Hallelujah Overcome |
- |
AT53 (3 weeks) AT |
- |
UK1 × 2
(20 weeks)UK |
First published: December 17, 2008
Sales: + 1,320,000 |
2009 | Bad Boys Overcome |
DE14 (13 weeks) DE |
AT22 (10 weeks) AT |
CH12 (13 weeks) CH |
UK1
platinum
(27 weeks)UK |
First release: October 12, 2009
feat. Flo Rida |
2010 | Broken Heels Overcome |
- | - | - |
UK8th
silver
(22 weeks)UK |
First published: January 18, 2010
|
All Night Long Overcome |
DE60 (3 weeks) DE |
- |
CH60 (3 weeks) CH |
UK4th
silver
(26 weeks)UK |
First published: March 29, 2010
feat. Pit bull |
|
Start Without You Overcome |
- | - | - |
UK1
silver
(13 weeks)UK |
First published: August 23, 2010
feat. Laza Morgan |
|
The Silence Overcome |
- | - |
CH66 (3 weeks) CH |
UK16 (6 weeks) UK |
First published: November 22, 2010
|
|
2012 | Elephant Heartbreak on Hold |
- | - | - |
UK3 (6 weeks) UK |
First published: April 2nd, 2012
feat. Erick Morillo |
Let It Go Heartbreak on Hold |
- | - | - |
UK33 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: June 3, 2012
|
|
2012 | Tonight Heartbreak on Hold |
- | - | - | - |
Collaborations
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
2008 | Hero | - | - | - |
UK1 × 2
(13 weeks)UK |
First published: 2008
with the 2008 X Factor finalists |
2010 | Everybody hurts |
DE16 (7 weeks) DE |
AT23 (7 weeks) AT |
CH16 (2 weeks) CH |
UK1
platinum
(5 weeks)UK |
First published: 2010
with Helping Haiti |
swell
- ↑ Melissa Bell: Daughter Alexandra Burke announces the death of her mother web.de, August 30, 2017
- ↑ Duffy and Burke top 2008 charts BBC, December 29, 2008
- ↑ Alexandra Burke announces UK tour , digital spy, September 7, 2010
- ↑ Alexandra Burke Explains why she left Syco for RCA ( Memento from March 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), We Blog Daily, February 24, 2012
- ↑ Alexandra Burke working on US album , digital spy, September 18, 2012
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
- ↑ a b c Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ Justin Myers: The Official Top 20 bestselling Christmas Number 1s. In: Official Charts Company. December 5, 2018, accessed January 6, 2019 .
- ↑ X Factor Finalists in the UK Charts
- ↑ Chart sources for Helping Haiti : DE-AT-CH (/ details ) UK
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Burke, Alexandra |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burke, Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewan (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London Borough of Islington , London , England , United Kingdom |