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Leona's birth place

After I did an interview with Leona, and I asked her a place to visit, she told me to go to a small village in Ghana, because that's the place where she was born. It is quite a beautiful place, and a few people there will remember her as a baby before her parents went back to the UK. He rnationality is British, she just wan't born in England because her parents werw in Ghana at the time of her birth. Think of it like the Norwegian singer Celine Frewer, who was born in Ankara despite her nationality being NOrwegian.

If I had it my way Leona would be all English, because I've been calling her "all english" for eons, but since she was born in Ghana my dream has been broken of meeting an all english singer.

Anyway, just alerting you to my edit, she wsa born in Ghana, not England sadley.

thanks Love you Leona, thanks for the interview and the recommendation. Ghana was great — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.101.62.36 (talk) 04:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure you don't mean Guyana, not Ghana? That would at least make more sense, as her father is from Guyana – why on earth would she have been born in Ghana if neither of her parents are from Africa? Richard3120 (talk) 01:19, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(...and if her mother is Welsh, then she still wouldn't be all English, even if her father was). Richard3120 (talk) 01:22, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"my parenst were in Ghana around the time I was born, they were working there" again think of it like how Celine Frewer was born in Ankara despite being raised in Oslo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.101.62.36 (talk) 01:36, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Was your interview published anywhere? We're going to need a better source than you claiming to have interviewed her. Also, I am not American (or Western for that matter), so please don't revert me or leave me messages on my talk page on the basis that I am "American". Bennv3771 (talk) 01:47, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) You'd still need a reliable third party source to be able to include this information in the article, and it has to be publicly available so that other editors can check that it meets Wikipedia's standards for verifiability – we can't just take your word for it. Richard3120 (talk) 01:51, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We're hoping that the interview will be published either ni May or June. 199.101.62.36 (talk) 04:13, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I should point out that on searching the UK birth records, there is a record of a Leona Louise Lewis born in 1985 in Islington in London. Richard3120 (talk) 17:51, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you show me? maybe it's the same sight that showed that there was no Tara McDonald born in the UK between 1981 and 1993

199.101.62.36 (talk) 23:27, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sure – I'm British and have done a fair bit of family history research, so I'm familiar with the UK's civil registration records. They used to be held in the Family Records Centre in London, but since they were all digitised about a decade ago, the records can only be found online through major family history websites like Findmypast and Ancestry – you can't view the full record unless you are a member, and you won't be able to pay to obtain a birth certificate because they don't send out certificates from the last 50 years unless you can prove that you are a close family member (this is to prevent someone fraudulently taking your identity).

So I can only view a search of the records – here's the result from Findmypast [1], and from Ancestry [2]. I notice that the two quotes you have given us from Ms Lewis do not definitely say "I was born in Ghana"... they could be interpreted in other ways. The best way to solve this would be to contact Leona Lewis' record company or management again, and ask unambiguously "where were you born?"

As for Tara McDonald, I assume you're talking about this person – well, there are plenty of Tara McDonalds born in England between 1981 and 1993... it could be that actually she wasn't born in Dartford as stated in the article (there is no source for this to verify it) but in another part of England, or that it was not the name registered on her birth certificate. Richard3120 (talk) 16:31, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe if Lewis had been born anywhere other than Islington, her birth would not have been registered in Islington. British births are registered in the district in which the birth happened. Her birth registration can also be viewed on Familysearch.org here - you need to register but it's free. Discogs is now claiming she was born in Ghana, but is this a site that anyone can edit? — ᴀnemone ᴘroᴊecтors 18:10, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely correct AnemoneProjectors, you can't be "retrospectively" registered as being British-born if you weren't actually born there, which is why someone like Cliff Richard will never have a British birth certificate. And as for the Discogs entry, anyone can edit the site and it wouldn't surprise me if the above IP had added that information, as apparently nobody else knows that she was supposedly born in Ghana. Richard3120 (talk) 00:47, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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