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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