Helen Baylor has been played on NTS in shows including Minimal Effort, featured first on 26 January 2018. Songs played include Oasis.

Helen Baylor (born January 8, 1953) is an American gospel singer.

Baylor was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Los Angeles, where she first performed as a secular nightclub act. She opened for Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and B.B. King while still in her teens, and performed in the musical Hair. In the 1970s she continued working in musicals and also sang with Captain & Tenille and Chaka Khan, but struggled with drug abuse in the 1980s as her career soured.

Baylor became sober…