'Glassheart' songstress Leona Lewis is about to release her first ever Christmas album, but has also revealed that she has big plans for her upcoming new studio record. 

'Christmas, With Love' is due to be unveiled on December 2 in her native UK and she confessed to Digital Spy that a range of sounds and genres have influenced her where thoughts about her new album are concerned because her career has been so diverse this year:

"Well really this year I took the time to become re-inspired, and after my tour I thought that it was gonna be a chilled kind of year, kind of, you know, going in the studio. But then I did a film and recorded a bunch of '80s songs for it, so I was in the '80s headspace for a while."

"Then I went straight into recording all these Christmas classic Motown kind of songs, so it really gave me a chance to just get out of my head and go into something completely different. I feel like for the next record I'm re-inspired to do something a bit different, maybe even go into that kind of retro throwback sound for the next record."

Lewis then confessed that getting Bruno Mars to agree to a collaboration is something she's very keen to do: "I definitely want to work with the Smeezingtons. I'd love to do something with Bruno Mars, so I'm reaching out to a few different people and also some Motown people, maybe doing something with them. So I'm still thinking about it, but maybe I'll try something like that on the next album."