- Helen Baylor( Helen LaRue Lowe )【 35 songs in total 】
- Helen LaRue Lowe (born January 8, 1954), known professionally as Helen Baylor, is an American singer–songwriter.
Early life
Born Helen LaRue Lowe in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Baylor is the youngest of seven, she has five brothers and one sister. Baylor moved to Los Angeles at age eleven as her Dad (who was in the Army) had been transferred there. While in Los Angeles, Baylor first performed as a nightclub act.
Career
Baylor opened for Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and B.B. King while still in her teens, and performed in the musical Hair. In 1967/68 she worked with producer Bobby Sanders releasing two singles The Richest Girl and What About Me Boy as Little Helen for the Soultown label. In the 1970s she joined hit Broadway musical Hair and followed this period of her career as a session musician for artists that included Captain & Tennille, Les McCann and Chaka Khan. As a member of Side Effect her vocals featured on their third album What You Need, from which 'Always There', a song co-written by Ronnie Laws was a R&B chart success. Later in the 1980s her career would falter as a consequence of drug abuse.
Baylor became sober late in the decade, strengthening her Christian faith and deciding to concentrate her career in gospel music. She released her first gospel recording on Word Records in 1990 and her first five albums all hit the Top Ten of the U.S. Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart, with the most successful being 1995's The Live Experience, which reached #1 on that chart. The track 'Oasis' was very successful in the UK, via Expansion Records and stayed on the Music Week Dance Chart for 14 weeks. Also, the song 'Sold Out' (from the album Start All Over) won a Dove Award for Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year at the 24th GMA Dove Awards in 1993 In July 2011, Baylor announced that she is co-producing a feature film about her life story. The film, A Praying Grandmother:The Helen Baylor Story, will feature accounts that she first shared in the song, 'Helen's Testimony' (Word, 1995) and in her autobiography, No Greater Love: The Helen Baylor Story. Baylor approached award-winning filmmaker Cassandra Hollis to co-produce and direct the film. Baylor was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2000.
Personal
In August 1970, At age sixteen Baylor had her first child. Baylor battled with substance abuse; using marijuana and pain pills. Before going on tour with Chaka Khan, Baylor began dating the lighting director James Baylor who was also a drug dealer in 1979. Shortly thereafter, They moved in together. Baylor became a born-again Christian and quit doing drugs. In February 1982, She married Baylor. In 2000, they were contemplating separating but reconciled. However in 2012, Baylor and her husband separated.
Discography
Highly Recommended (Word Records, 1990)
Look a Little Closer (Word, 1991)
Start All Over (Word, 1993)
The Live Experience (Word, 1995)
Love Brought Me Back (Sony Records, 1996)
Helen Baylor...Live (Verity Records, 1999)
My Everything (Diadem Records, 2002)
Full Circle (MCG, 2006)
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Song
Lyricist
Composer
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1
All of Me (Live)
1999
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2
Awesome God (Testimony) [Live]
1999
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3
Awesome God
Richard Mullins
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4
Can You Reach My Friend - Live Version
1995
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5
Can You Reach My Friend - Remastered Version
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6
Can You Reach My Friend
Billy Sprague, Jim Weber
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7
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
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8
Fear Not My Child
Licciardello Carman D
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9
He Came Through
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10
Helen's Testimony (Live)
1999
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11
Helen's Testimony
1995
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12
Highly Recommended - Live Version
1995
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13
Highly Recommended - Remastered Version
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14
Hunger For Holiness
Licciardello Carman D
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15
I Miss My Time With You
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16
If You Abide In Me - Live Version
1995
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17
Lifting Up The Name Of Jesus - Live Version
1995
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18
Lifting Up The Name Of Jesus - Remastered Version
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19
Look a Little Closer - Live Version
1995
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20
Look A Little Closer - Remastered Version
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21
Lord, I Love You (Live)
1999
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22
Mary Did You Know?
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23
More Than (Just) a Feeling [Live]
1999
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24
More Than (Just) A Feeling
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25
More Than A Friend - Live Version
1995
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26
Sea of Forgetfulness
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27
Sold Out - Live Version
1995
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28
The Sea Of Forgetfulness - Live Version
1995
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29
The Sea of Forgetfulness - Remastered Version
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30
There Is No Denying
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31
There's No Greater Love
Helen Baylor, Ricky Lawson, Mitchaelle Maiden, Tony Maiden
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32
Victory - Live Version
1995
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33
Victory
1995
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34
What Can I Do for You?
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35
Worship Medley: If It Had Not Been For the Lord On My Side / Great Is Thy Faithfulness / The King of Who I Am