Artist:M People
Song:Open Your Heart
Album:The Best of M People
Chances are pretty good that if you are a fan of 90s dance music you heard the British group M People. They were very successful on the dance charts and in clubs. They also scored several top ten hits in England including Open Your Heart. Mark Pickering was the leader of M People. He was in the group Quando Quando and he was a popular DJ at the Manchester club The Hacienda. After meeting Paul Heard of the band Ace of Clubs, they decided to start working together. At first M People was going to hire various singers. But they instead brought in Heather Small of the soul group Hot House as lead singer. Later on they brought in percussionist Andrew "Shovell" Lovell. Pickering worked for Deconstruction Records as an A&R man and they were distributed by RCA. They were immediately successful on the dance charts and had several top ten hits in England. Open Your Heart is from the 1995 album Bizarre Fruit II. It topped the dance charts and reached #9 on the British Singles chart. Like most of M People's songs, Open Your Heart was written and produced by Pickering and Heard. Veteran sideman Chris "Snake" Davis played the sax solo. You can get all of M People's hits on this budget comp. M People last recorded in 1997. Though they have reunited a couple of times, Pickering works for Columbia Records A&R department. Heather has had modest success as a solo artist. Heard has had some success as a songwriter. Here's the video for Open Your Heart by M People.
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