banner banner - Texettes heart
  • You’ll be looking good…. just like
    Hollywood …. we’ll be the lady and the tramp
  • All those lonely hearts…… as they fall apart……
    all those lonely hearts, cry
  • I’m a big girl now….
    I can live through the pain…
    I can see through the tears here comes the rain 
  • I’m in love with this country…. I get so high…
    I’m in love with this country of mine
  • No one holds me... honey holds me, no one holds me...
    I feel so damn low
  • And there written on a wall...
    was a message for us all, in letters six feet tall...
    where did the good times go?
  • And I don’t know where I’m heading from
    and I don’t know from where I’m bound,
    but I need someone...
  • I can feel your bare feet walking... across the
    redwood floor... And I heard you catch you breath...
    like so many times before
  • My teddy bear got drunk last night….
    His fur was on the floor… and under it there was a
    teddy bear note saying you don’t love me no more
  • The language of the English….  hangs around my neck. 
    The syllables…. that strangle…. every breath...
    talk in English
  • It’s times like these that I miss cigarettes……
    the smoke and the sky
  • Hello heartache, well you’ve been
    here for a while. Soon our drinking friends
    will be here, that should raise a smile
  • There’s a woman on Mare Street …
    down by the station… rattling
    her can for another good cause
  • When summer’s over... it’s like any time of day…..
    looks like rain again today
  • He’ll arrive late in the pouring rain...
    he’ll be leaving with the steam and the moaning wind...
    so please, carry him home
  • Life is a rodeo... we all end up in the dirt...
    but the prize that I ride for is her

Biography

Helen

Helen’s voice has been recently described as “one that we need to hear more of, fantastic for country
music”.  She started singing as a hobby in March 1999 making her debut on the verandah of  Adelaide Community Radio Station Three D's weekly live to air programme, the Hillbilly Hoot. 

Making  her debut as a member of the Texettes 5 piece (April 2000 to December 2002),  the Texette Trio (March 2003 to July 2004) and the Texette Duo (March 2005), she has also undertaken countless live performances as part of the Hillbilly Hoot performer’s group.

Helen’s recording experience commenced with the Hillbilly Hoot 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 "The Cowgirl Lounge" lead and backing vocals; 2001 Sasha Galliver’s "Angel Baby" album backing vocals; the Texettes "Sweetheart" album lead and backing vocals; 2003 "The Land That We Love" EP backing vocals; 2004 "Come Swim With Me" lead vocal; "You Can't Do That" backing vocal; "I Love Chocolate" backing vocal; lead and backing vocals with the Texettes duo's 2006 release, "Fearless" album, the 2008 release “Lost in Blue” and “The Lady and the Tramp” and “You Can’t Do That” albums 2009.

Helen and Terry made their debut as a duo at the Frances Folk Gathering in March 2005.  It was here that Helen entered her first singing competition and came third in the Intermediate Vocalist Section.  Further appearances at Frances saw her take second place in 2006 and win the Intermediate vocalist section in 2007.  Helen considers that she has had two career highlights, being invited to participate in the 2008 SACCM’s Champion of Champion’s Talent Quest and “winning the 2008 Golden Oldie Vocal award at Pt. Augusta…..especially when you consider that I started singing at 51”.   Since  then, Helen has picked up individual awards,  as a duet with Terry and with the Texettes Band. See awards  page 

Helen’s passion is to keep developing as a vocalist and to market and promote the Texettes music.  “People say they want to hear me sing cover songs.  It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s more about finding the time.  Singing an original song is like being a parent, you create, you nurture, you  watch it grow and then when it’s able  to stand up for itself  you let it go” ……I love that process”.