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Headley’s message manifested itself into the question, “Are Christians able to honor God in secular cultures?” Headley would say yes, and, furthermore, she would claim that it is a necessity. They may not say ‘God, God’, but they are there.” On Friday, October 18, Headley came to Wheaton College to perform and talk about her experience in the entertainment world. Headley just returned from 11 months in London, England where she has been “trying out” The Body Guard on audiences. Heather Headley is a Trinidadian pastor’s kid, who, while performing on Broadway and winning Grammy’s, also maintains a steadfast love for Jesus. Over the past few years she has al­so dis­played her ver­sa­til­i­ty as one of clas­si­cal star An­drea Bo­cel­li's favourite singing part­ners, and has been fea­tured in many of his Amer­i­can and in­ter­na­tion­al tours, his Live In Tus­cany PBS spe­cial, and his Un­der The Desert Sky live con­cert DVD.What do Broadway and Christianity have in common? Heather Headley. She al­so re­ceived nom­i­na­tions at the NAACP Im­age Awards for Out­stand­ing New Artist and Out­stand­ing Fe­male Artist, Bill­board Mu­sic Awards for R&B New Artist of the Year, and BET Awards in the "Cool Like That" cat­e­go­ry. At the Soul Train La­dy of Soul Awards she won dual ho­n­ours: R&B/Soul Al­bum of the Year and Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. She earned nu­mer­ous ac­co­lades for This Is Who I Am, in­clud­ing Gram­my Award nom­i­na­tions for Best New Artist and Best Fe­male R&B Vo­cal Per­for­mance. Two songs, the sin­gle He Is and the al­bum track I Wish I Wasn't, both emerged as Top 5 R&B and Dance chart hits.

Headley con­tin­ued her Broad­way suc­cess on the pop charts with her 2002 de­but al­bum on RCA Records, This Is Who I Am, which fea­tured pro­duc­tions by sev­er­al top-flight pro­duc­ers in­clud­ing Jim­my Jam & Ter­ry Lewis and Shep Craw­ford. That year she was list­ed as one of Peo­ple Mag­a­zine's 50 Most Beau­ti­ful Peo­ple and Essence Mag­a­zine's 30 Women To Watch. In ad­di­tion to oth­er awards, she al­so re­ceived the cov­et­ed Dra­ma Desk Award for Out­stand­ing Ac­tress in a Mu­si­cal. Her por­tray­al of the Nu­bian princess, Ai­da, won her the praise of crit­ics and the pres­ti­gious Tony Award for Best Ac­tress in a Mu­si­cal. While still in The Li­on King, she was asked to au­di­tion for the ti­tle role in the writ­ing duo's next Broad­way ven­ture to­geth­er, El­ton John and Tim Rice's Ai­da. In 1997, Headley, a North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty alum­ni, won the role of Nala in the orig­i­nal Broad­way cast of the El­ton John and Tim Rice's hit Tony win­ning mu­si­cal The Li­on King. The fam­i­ly moved to the Unit­ed States in the ear­ly 90's, where her love for the arts con­tin­ued. The daugh­ter of a pas­tor, she start­ed singing and play­ing the pi­ano in the church at a very young age.

She was born and spent most of her child­hood in Trinidad. The Tony and Gram­my Award win­ner con­sid­ers her mul­ti-faceted ca­reer a bless­ing. Ac­cord­ing to Unit­ed Way, it costs $1,500 to pro­vide the ba­sic needs for a child for a year.įeel re­cent­ly pro­vid­ed mat­tress­es to the flood vic­tims two weeks ago, each at the cost of $1,000.Headley is among the top singers with a vo­cal that ab­solute­ly as­tounds with its in­ten­si­ty and is con­sid­ered one of the great en­ter­tain­ers of the day, on record and on stage.

Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed is sup­port­ive of this event and is urg­ing the pub­lic to sup­port a tru­ly wor­thy cause. The in­au­gur­al char­i­ty event is be­ing spon­sored by BG T&T, part­nered with Unit­ed Air­lines and Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre. Daugh­ter of the soil, Heather Headley, will fea­ture in con­cert on De­cem­ber 17, to sup­port the work of Feel and Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go in 2012.