Donna Lewis: 5 Things To Know About 90’s One Hit Wonder In Diddy’s Super Bowl Ad

Sean “Diddy” Combs recruited some ’90s icons to make a jingle for Uber One successful his caller commercial for Super Bowl LVII, which tin beryllium seen above. The video shows artists with viral hits implicit the years performing a new, Uber-inspired mentation of their respective songs. One of the artists who took a crook singing is Welsh popular vocalist Donna Lewis, who is champion known for her 1996 azygous “I Love You Always Forever”. She changed the lyrics from “I emotion you ever everlastingly / Near oregon far, person together,” to “Uber One saves you everlastingly / Rides and eats / Save connected whatever”. Her archetypal opus deed No. 2 connected the Billboard Hot 100 successful August of 1996 and would service arsenic Donna’s lone apical 10 deed of her career. 

Donna is thrilled to beryllium included successful the commercial, which besides starred Montell Jordan (“This Is How We Do It”), Kelis (“Milkshake”), Ylvis (“The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)”), and Haddaway (“What Is Love”). Alongside a snippet of her portion she shared connected Instagram, she gushed, “Been waiting astir ‘Always Forever’ for this. Catch it Sunday!” Now that she is backmost successful the spotlight for the wildly fashionable opus she created astir 30 years ago, work connected to larn much astir Donna Lewis.

Donna Lewis smiles successful 1997, 1 twelvemonth aft ‘I Love You Always Forever’ debuted (Photo: SplashNews)

‘I Love You Always Forever’ Gave Donna Lewis Financial Freedom

Donna Lewis received a classical euphony acquisition from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, according to her official biography, truthful popular euphony is conscionable 1 genre of euphony she’s versed in. She has covered a assortment of philharmonic genres passim her career, and she said it’s each acknowledgment to her 1996 smash hit, “I Love You Always Forever,” successful a 2011 chat with BBC. “The airplay for that opus has been bully to maine implicit the years,” she noted. “At that time, successful 1996, I ne'er paid overmuch attraction to the fiscal side; I was excessively engaged doing what I love. But it decidedly gave maine the accidental to bash immoderate philharmonic projects I wanted to do.”

Donna Lewis Released A Jazz Album In 2015

Speaking of moving wrong varying genres, Donna released a jazz screen album, Brand New Day, successful 2015. It was recorded by the jazz trio The Bad Plus. “This grounds is simply a wholly antithetic way for me,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “I didn’t privation to beryllium 1 of those popular singers coming backmost from a deed galore years agone with a standards record. We sat down truly reasoning astir the musicians and what benignant of songs we wanted to do.”

The medium included a caller mentation of “I Love You Always Forever,” which she admitted wasn’t the archetypal plan. “I was decidedly reasoning I wouldn’t bash that. We had a mates of different things that didn’t marque the record, and it was an afterthought. And it was [composer David Torn] who pushed to bash a wholly antithetic statement of it. But I’ve grown to truly similar it,” she recalled.

Donna Lewis sings successful the 2023 ace vessel advertisement for Uber One (Photo: Courtesy of Uber)

She besides admitted the medium wasn’t connected her radar until David and Jeff Resnick, her 2 “good friends”, brought the thought to her. “When they approached maine astir it, I thought it was great. A implicit departure from thing I’d done before. I was disquieted that I mightiness beryllium seen arsenic conscionable a ‘pop vocalist doing jazz’ truthful we thought truly cautiously astir the songs and the musicians,” she told Sussex Jazz Magazine successful June 2016. “We wanted radical that we knew could beryllium truly originative with the thought of taking a popular opus oregon a mainstream opus and doing thing unthinkable with it.”

Donna Lewis Refused To Reveal Her Age During the Peak Of Her Career

Donna refused to uncover her existent property amid her occurrence successful 1996, and it’s inactive unknown. She simply utilized the information that she had been joined to her hubby and manager, Martin Harris, for 9 years to amusement that she was “not 21”, according to her 1996 chat with Entertainment Weekly. She gave much penetration astir her property successful a 2015 interrogation with All About Jazz. “When I was successful the popular satellite (I’m benignant of retired of it now), I wasn’t a 19-year-old — I was 30 oregon thing similar that. But I was truthful thankful to get a grounds woody and person my euphony retired there,” she said.

Donna Lewis Has One Son

Donna has 1 lad with Martin: Archie Lewis-Harris, who is simply a 19-year-old euphony pupil astatine New York University, according to his Instagram bio. In July 2022, helium starred successful a Star Wars instrumentality movie called THE STIMULANT – A Star Wars Fan Film, which tin beryllium seen here. He besides composed the euphony for it.

Donna Lewis Is A Miley Cyrus Fan

Donna is simply a immense instrumentality of  Miley Cyrus‘ No. 1 hit, “Flowers”. In Jan. 2023, she shared a video connected Instagram of herself blissfully dancing successful the woods arsenic snowfall fell to the self-empowerment song. “Because……. I emotion this Miley song,” she captioned the video, which tin beryllium seen above.

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