Helen Terry

Helen Terry (born May 25, 1956 in England ) is a British pop singer and television producer .

Career

Helen Terry dropped out of law school in the mid-1970s and worked as a graphic artist, singing teacher and singer in the years that followed. In the early 1980s she was introduced to the Blitz kid and singer Boy George in a London nightclub . He invited her to audition as a background singer for the debut album of his band Culture Club . Terry eventually became an "unofficial" member of Culture Club, as Boy George later explained to the youth magazine BRAVO , and her voice was one of the musical trademarks of the pop band. Especially on Culture Club's most successful album Color By Numbers (1983), her vocal use attracted the attention of audiences and critics.

At the height of Culture Club's popularity and success, the band's record label, Virgin Records , decided to collaborate with Boy George and Roy Hay to produce Helen Terry's first solo single. Love Lies Lost was released in April 1984 and reached number 34 in the UK Top 40 , the follow-up single Stuttering number 84. Since the expected success did not materialize, Terry's debut album Blue Notes was not released until 1986. In 1984 she recorded Now You're Mine , produced by Giorgio Moroder , for the soundtrack of the film Electric Dreams and starred in the documentary Big Love - An Invitation to Disaster , alongside Jools Holland and Michael Clark . In addition to her solo career, she continued to work with other artists such as Phil Collins , Holly Johnson , Kevin Mooney or Ray Parker, Jr. together. In 1987 she sang on Boy George's first solo album and also accompanied him on his tour.

In 1989 she switched to Parlophone , but since there were disagreements with the record label, only two singles, Lessons in Loneliness and Fortunate Fool , were released. In the early 1990s she ended her own musical career for the time being and began to work for television, first for the children's program and finally from 2001 in the BBC's production team, where she worked, among other things, for broadcasting the BRIT Awards . In 2010 she was a guest singer on the Scissor Sisters album Night Work .

Discography

Albums

1986: Blue Notes

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title album	UK	US	Remarks
1984	Love Lies Lost	UK34 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1984
1984	Stuttering blue notes	UK84 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 1984
1986	One Sunny Day Quicksilver (OST)	-	US96 (3 weeks) US	First published: February 1986 with Ray Parker, Jr.