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" Leona Lewis&amp;#039;s third studio album is about 80% finished, according to producer Fraser T Smith. The songwriter and musician is overseeing production of the singer&amp;#039;s entire new record Glassheart and has described it as &amp;quot;relevant&amp;quot;.   It&amp;#039;s the first time Lewis and Smith have worked together on a complete album, with Smith producing the whole project and co-writing half of the tracks. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been amazing,&amp;quot; he told Music Week. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been a great challenge to come up with a vision at the beginning of how we wanted it to sound and I hope to be able to do more projects like that in the future. &amp;quot;People have preconceptions of what Leona is so you want to keep the essence of that and keep pushing the boundaries.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve got the key tracks and we&amp;#039;re very close. She&amp;#039;s done some fantastic vocals and is making a very relevant record and a very important record for her. The songs are really strong.&amp;quot; As well as confirming that work on the album is about 80% finished, he asserted that Lewis is &amp;quot;making an artist album rather than it being a collection of songs&amp;quot;. Fraser T Smith is best known for co-writing Adele&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Set Fire to the Rain&amp;#039; and Taio Cruz&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Break Your Heart&amp;#039;. Lewis recently promised fans that she will perform a new track from Glassheart - due out November 26 - at Radio 1&amp;#039;s Hackney Weekend on Saturday (June 23). Watch the music video for Leona Lewis&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Collide&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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