MUSIC

Hailing from St. Petersburg FL, Josh Helms has spent the last 15 years honing the craft of songwriting and discovering what it means to deliver those songs to a live audience. From an early age Josh began leading worship in his Father’s church where he fell in love with music and songwriting. “As far back as I can remember I’ve been singing in church and I would always stick at least one of my original songs in the set list,” Josh admits. While in college in Florida Josh tried out and was selected to be a finalist on USA Network’s Nashville Star 2 years in a row. During these trips to Nashville to sing at both the Wildhorse Saloon and The Stage on Broadway Josh fell in love with Nashville and everything the city had to offer. “I knew then that I had to move here and steep myself in the craft of writing and performing country songs. I was hooked!” Shortly after moving to town Josh began writing songs with published songwriters and singing at songwriter rounds around town.
In 2006 Josh married his wife and together they took a job at a large church in Tampa as the music director. During his time there the church fell in love with Josh’s original songs and in 2009 Josh released a worship record titled “So the World May Hear.” The songs on this record are sung at churches all over the country weekly with 8 songs in the top 2000 reported songs by churches in America according to CCLI. The success of this record also allowed Josh to make constant trips back to Nashville to continue writing and performing and in 2010 when Josh admits “I just could not stay away anymore,” he moved back to town fulltime.
With a catalogue of nearly 300 songs Josh has written with many successful writers including Michael Howard, Carl Cartee, Alli Rogers and Grammy nominated writers Sam Mizell and Robert White Johnson. Currently Josh is performing weekly at songwriter nights and clubs around Nashville.