In search of a safe place to recover, and a determination to remain clean and sober Helen Baylor joined the Crenshaw Christian Center. Helen Baylor decided once again to start her singing career after extensive classes and sessions on the Bible. For two more years she sang in the church choir before even doing a solo. In her mid-30's, with a past behind her as checkered as it was illustrious, Helen embarked on a new life and career, clean and healthy, and focused on serving the God who had seen her through it all.
She began performing solo spreading the message of God. Her songs are written based on her personal experiences from her hardships to finding God. Helen explains, "but that just made me want to seek to do an even better job of what I do...to really reach those people and let them know all that God has brought me through and hope that might help them in their own lives. I'm all for good, wholesome, Christian entertainment, but I've got a calling on my life to go further--to reach into people's hearts and touch and be touched by who and where they are. That's just the minister in me."
"There were so many moments when it was just me alone with that microphone," Helen recalls, "and it was nothing but the Holy Spirit carrying things to a level beyond anything I could achieve on my own. We did a version of "Amazing Grace," and on my vocal intro a sound came out that was straight form my childhood in the Pentecostal church. I couldn't replicate it now if I tried. It just poured out.
When you listen to Helen Baylor, you're listening to real life. Even though she has spent the last decade as one of the leading ladies of modern Gospel music, Helen's platform to the people has been anything but an ivory tower. Over the years, Helen's lifelong, God-given gift for song has walked hand-in-hand with the struggles of everyday life. But Helen Baylor is nothing if not a survivor, and her newest release, "Helen Baylor...Live," is the latest and most riveting, righteous and rocking chapter in the life of a woman unafraid to wear her turmoils and triumphs clearly on her sleeve for all to see.
