Throughout her 30+-year span of musical achievements as a Jazz Vocal Musician specializing in Classic, Traditional jazz standard, Lenora Zenzalai (ZenZAYLay) Helm has toured, recorded, and performed with renowned artists around the world. Her career as a vocal musician has encompassed time as a lyricist, guest artist, background singer, composer, and educator at North Carolina Central University. During her time as a musician, Helm has earned recognition as: a quarter-finalist for the 2014 GRAMMY Music Educator of the Year Award, a Salzburg Global Citizenship Fellow, a UNC Global Educator Fellow, a Fulbright Senior Music Specialist, and the former US Jazz Ambassador under the State Department and Kennedy Center. She has contributed to the music industry with six solo recordings, some of which are under her own recording and publishing company, Zenzalai Music. Helms’ sixth CD, I Love Myself When I’m Laughing, was listed on Independent Ear’s “30 recommended 2012 Record Releases.” Her seventh release, For the Love of Big Band is slated for March 9, 2020. Helm has been honored as a guest performer and background vocalist amongst such musicians as Donald Brown, Ron Carter, Andrew Hill, David Liebman, Freddie Jackson, and Michael Franks at venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Schomburg Center’s Women in Jazz Festival, and Mellon Jazz Festival.