Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewan Burke is a
British singer who rose to fame after winning the fifth series of British television series
The X Factor in 2008.

As the winner of The X Factor,
Alexandra released her debut single, "
Hallelujah", originally a
Leonard Cohen song, that became the current European record holder for single sales over a period of 24 hours: selling 105,000 copies in one day; but also, the top-selling song of the year in the UK as well as becoming the 2008 Christmas number one single in the UK. By January 2009, sales of
Burke's version of "
Hallelujah" had passed one million copies which made her the first British female soloist to sell that amount of copies in the UK.
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