Editing Heather Small (section)

===2006–2008: ''Close to a Miracle''===
Small released a new single, "Radio On", in the UK on 17 July 2006. Her second solo album, ''[[Close to a Miracle]],'' was released on 24 July, followed by a second single of the same name released digitally on 25 September 2006. It also included a previously unreleased track, "Changes". The album was a commercial disappointment—it charted for one week at number 57, and both supporting singles failed to reach the Top 100—but a short UK solo tour later in the autumn was received well.<ref>[http://www.heathersmall.com/latestnews.html Heather Small News<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070918231847/http://www.heathersmall.com/latestnews.html |date=18 September 2007 }}</ref>

In 2007, Small collaborated with Icelandic tenor [[Garðar Thór Cortes]] on a song called "Luna". It was released as a single from his album ''Cortes'' and reached number two in the Icelandic online music charts.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} A new song was recorded to celebrate 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, and Small performed at a concert in London to mark the anniversary on 10 November 2007. On 26 May 2008, Small performed alongside [[Stereophonics]] and [[Feeder (band)|Feeder]] at the [[Millennium Stadium]] in [[Cardiff]] as part of the celebrations of Wales's success at the 2008 Grand Slam.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web|url=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=96179475|title=Heather Small [Voice of M People] - London, UK - Soul / R&B; / Disco House|date=19 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119174030/http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=96179475|access-date=19 August 2020|archive-date=19 November 2008}}</ref> In addition, Small performed three nights at [[Ronnie Scott's]] in October as part of her 2008 tour, and headlined at Manchester Pride.

On 24 August 2008, she performed at the [[Visa Inc.|Visa]] London 2012 Party to celebrate the handover as host city of the [[Olympic Games]] from Beijing, China, to London. Small sang "Proud", which was the unofficial anthem of [[Great Britain at the Olympics|Team GB]] at the [[2004 Summer Olympics|Athens Games]] in 2004, and was the official anthem of the [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012 Games]]. In December 2008, she performed "Proud" again on the 2008 [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year]] programme, as a soundtrack to a montage of British Olympian achievements at Beijing.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}}