Heather Small

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 in Ladbroke Grove, West London, and attended a local state school, where she excelled academically despite the lack of encouragement from teachers.