Heather Marguerita Small (born 20 January 1965) is an English soul singer and lead vocalist of the band M People. Her subsequent debut solo studio album, Proud, was released in 2000. Her second and third studio albums, Close to a Miracle and Colour My Life, were released in 2006 and 2022, respectively. == Early life == Heather Small was born in London to parents who came from Barbados in the early 1960s. She was brought up on a council estate... [more on Wikipedia]