Stop This Flame singer Celeste Waite speaking in parliament this week

CELESTE Waite should be in your record collection by now.

A soulful voice, sometimes soft, sometimes dramatic, even those who still can’t picture her will have heard voice on the themes to Sky’s Super Sunday football coverage and the recent Day of The Jackal reboot – the latter of which sounded like a perfect audition to be hired for the next Bond soundtrack.

She was, however, able to appear before the House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee on Tuesday with a distinct lack of fanfare.

Usually, when a star performer appears before MPs, you’ll see much more coverage than actually materialised.

It’s a shame because Celeste had important contributions about the prevalence of misogyny in the music industry, and how too many artists were taken advantage of by older male producers and that young black women in particular were pressured into “sexualised” costumes and performances.

She was clear that the common use of non-disclosure agreements – NDAs – should not be used to mask abuse.

How appreciated it is that a woman who has achieved a good deal of success already at 30, and admits herself that she now has more artistic control than others, is out there speaking out and showing solidarity.

A theme of the evidence-taking this week was after all the warning that female performers were so often worried about reporting inappropriate behaviour for fear of consequences for their careers or simply not being believed.

MPs were told by a series of guests that those who had found the courage to do so had seen no action taken against the perpetrators.

The heavy hints across the committee’s session was that there were some well known men behaving awfully without any fear that they would ever be brought to book. Music had yet to have its big “Me Too moment”, the panel was told.

“Some powerful individuals have the confidence to know they can potentially stifle you even without you having signed an NDA,” she said. “They will exercise the use of the power that they hold in whatever way they can.”

Of course, the question is whether the guests who speak in front of this committee will be listened to now.

The politicians in the room were left with a duty to not simply be the good ones for listening, they must now act too.

A host of recommendations including banning NDAs, safer spaces, and better education against toxic masculinity are on the table.