Helen J Hicks debut solo album, live jazz album and Lullaby album are out now on amazon.co.uk and iTunes and all major digital platforms and are also available on www.helenjhicks.com store.

A Cambridge Choral Scholar and winner of the Best Newcomer at the 2005 Marlborough Jazz Festival, Helen J Hicks is a "... a Joni Mitchell on the cusp between folk and jazz" Sunday Times.

She has currently working on developing her new brand 'Mama's Favourite' the first album of which is 'Mama's Favourite Lullabies' is available now and also has a poster version available exclusively from the website. A DVD version and book version are planned later in the year, with nursery rhyme and 'Songs for the car' CDs also being put together for the same series (see 'news' section for further details as they arrive). Helen is also promoting her current album 'Helen J Hicks Live at the 606' through Caffe Nero who are supporting the album by including the lead track on their current international playlist - see 'Events' and 'News' sections for details of her Caffe Nero gig dates as they happen.

Last year she’s sang on an Authentic release for Nick Battle with Carrie and David Grant, produced by Sting’s acclaimed producer Kipper. She is also available for teaching and running ‘Mama’s Favourite Lullabies Singing Seminars’ teaching parents how to bond with their child through voice and schools how to build communication skills and in particular verbal development in infancy and beyond.

She has collaborated on songs with Izzy from Guns 'n' Roses while working with Charles Norman in LA, she has sung with the likes of Jazz greats David Okumu and Ian Shaw, and the recently deceased Larry Norman. Helen represented music in the UK at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Helen also formed her own Jazz band called KUDU, with local Tanzanian musicians, while living in Dar es Salaam in 2001. KUDU was a huge success, playing at every major event in the city, and appearing on National and South African Television.

Prior to launching her solo album, Helen has recorded 2 albums with her band HoneyRiders and was signed to Universal for their last album. Helen also launched her own music label LoudMouthMusic Ltd on return from Africa and all her music is licensed through her own label.

She won a choral scholarship to Cambridge University, where she was the first soprano soloist for Magdalene College and part of the third year of girls allowed entrance to the college. Whilst there, she pursued her love of Jazz by forming a jazz duo to play at the college summer balls as well as performing on stage with the Footlights and ADC and also starring as the lead a professional Cambridge Arts Theatre production of ‘Babes in Arms’ and alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and Footlights review doing ‘Santa Baby’.  

On leaving University Helen worked on a song-writing project with James Taylor from JTQ and on a film project with Sacha Baron Cohen and a couple of other Cambridge friends called ‘Cambridge Rejects’ . She then went on to form a band with Nigel Kennedy’s guitarist, Sagat Guirey. Spotted playing at the ‘Borderline’ by producer and drummer Peter Van Hooke she went on to work with rock-pop band FLOW on an album project with Peter travelling to Midem together in Cannes.

In 2000 Helen started working in the UK with drummer James Sedge and formed the band HONEYRIDERS just recording her own material when FLOW split up. Having already planned to move to Africa she spent the next 18 months flying back and forth from Dar es Salaam to London to do recordings with HoneyRiders in London and performing live with Kudu in Tanzania.

HoneyRiders's first "demo" album, recorded in a mate's bedroom studio, had some raw energy about it. James and Helen decided to get a live band together to promote the songs and before long they were selling out of the demo albums at their gigs and pressing more and more.

Helen decided to take it one stage further and formed her own label, LoudMouthMusic, with her original friend and business partner, Shaffin, who had been going to fund the label and band KUDU in Tanzania. HoneyRiders played all over London, at Helen's old haunt the Borderline but also at Kaberet, The Gate, The Cobden, Madam Jo Jo's, Pizza Express Dean Street 606club, café de Paris, Boujis and even Ronnie Scott's. The word spread as they grew in popularity.

HoneyRiders under the LoudMouthMusic umbrella recorded "Letting the light in". Working with the very talented singer and producer Ian Shaw and engineer Joe Leach at Cowshed Recording Studio, "Letting the light in", got rave reviews and airplay. Terry Wogan supported the single, 'Colour', on Radio 2 as did all the regional BBC radio stations and E-Map's show, 'The Box' proved their video to be a popular success, beating Robbie Williams and Britney Spears in it's first week of the week, of release in their public voted charts.

Suddenly Helen was doing interviews, features in 'Harpers and Queen' and 'Hello', she even managed to acquire an eighty thousand pound cross-brand marketing deal with Wella Hair Salon Products.

Helen was spotted by Decca, part of Universal, singing at Adam Street Private members club and within a month she had signed a five-album deal with them.

She went back into the studio with producer Ian Shaw to add a couple of jazz numbers with a HoneyRiders' twist, to a revised version of the album as the new version of the album was to be released through UCJ. Andy Green (producer of Keane's multi-platinum album 'Hopes and Fears') remixed it and it was re-named simply, "HoneyRiders." After a month or so the album was ready to be launched again. Currently the jazz track, 'After you've gone' taken from this album is being airplayed daily once more courtesy of the 'Caffe Nero' international playlist.

That year HoneyRiders went on tour winning the Best Newcomer award at the Marlborough Jazz Festival.

At the same time during that year, as well as doing gigs she had been writing more songs. She was ready to record the next album.

Using her independent label once more 'Helen J Hicks' was born as a solo artist.

When she decided to split from Decca it seemed the perfect time to record her own solo album as well as freeing her up to work on projects with other artists. Which is why last year she had time to also sing on an Authentic release for Nick Battle with Carrie and David Grant, produced by Sting’s acclaimed producer Kipper, as well as guest sing on a couple of other projects and begin to build her new Mama's Favourite brand.

She returned to Greenbelt this summer singing songs from her own albums as well as taking part in the tribute concert to Larry Norman on the Sunday.

She is planning to do her own cross-over album, entitled 'Inspiration', including some of her favourite Larry Norman songs along with some originals later in the year,.

‘Helen J Hicks – Live at the 606’ and ‘Mama’s Favourite Lullabies’ are available now.