Helen Boulding

Few artists arrive with such music industry insider support as London-based singer/songwriter Helen Boulding when she released her debut album, a diverse set of names that ran from Ryan Adams to Rick Wright were already in her corner. Born and raised in Sheffield, Boulding first came to London to study under Annie Lennox's vocal coach. In 1996, she put her training to use as a background singer for 911, but it was her skills at songwriting that really impressed the teen-pop group's producer, Eliot Kennedy. With Kennedy, she would co-write the group's 1997 Top Five hit "The Day...