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"Leona Lewis has admitted that it wasn&amp;#039;t a difficult decision to leave Simon Cowell&amp;#039;s record label. The singer recently moved from Sony imprint Syco - with whom she signed to following her win on The X Factor back in 2006 - to Universal label Island Records.  &amp;quot;No, [it was] not difficult, really,&amp;quot; Lewis told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been with Sony for eight years. They&amp;#039;ve given me my launch pad and now it&amp;#039;s time for me to make my own tracks in my own way. &amp;quot;For me, it&amp;#039;s like leaving home. It&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;Bye, mum and dad. It&amp;#039;s time to go out and live my own life&amp;#039;. I&amp;#039;m really being able to spread my wings, fly and make something for myself now.&amp;quot; Speaking about her choice of new label, she added: &amp;quot;I went with Island because I like their creativeness and their individuality.  &amp;quot;The artists they have are really allowed and enticed to express themselves freely. What more can you ask for a label? It&amp;#039;s amazing.&amp;quot;  Lewis will star in upcoming British movie Walking On Sunshine, which will be in cinemas from June 27. &amp;quot;I read it and I thought the songs fit so perfectly and the script was just feel-good. I felt it was the right thing for me to do, because it wasn&amp;#039;t so far away from what I do as a singer,&amp;quot; she said of the career move. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to ease my way in [to acting]. It&amp;#039;s so technical and there&amp;#039;s so much going on. You do [a scene] 10,000 times and you have to do it with the same emotion each time, so I&amp;#039;ve got a lot to learn.&amp;quot; Walking On Sunshine also stars Katy Brand, Greg Wise and Hannah Arterton. Watch a clip from Walking On Sunshine below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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