Helge grew up in Utrecht and Nieuwegein, listening to his parents singing Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. He learned how to play the piano and the guitar. In his teenage years he started to write his own songs. Together wis his brother, a drummer, and two friends he started to tour through the Netherlands with his band Mill. 

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At the same time he went to Antwerp, Belgium, to start at the Theater Academy Studio Herman Teirlinck. After graduating he went back to The Netherlands to start composing for theater productions, and to record and tour with his new band Storybox and later with duo Miss Molly & Me. 

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In 2012 he composed his first cinematic score for the film Kauwboy. And many films after that followed. This element of his composing started to influence his work as a singer-songwriter more and more. From the moment he started working solo under his own name in 2017 he started to approach songs more and more as a narrative and layered coherence. 

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Together with drummer and producer Dave Menkehorst he started to search for a sound that combines the elements that make his heart beat the fastest: the song, the cinematic feel and the storytelling.

 

After his debut album The Days of Young Petty Davis, which was a tribute to his childhood, he went to Iceland in 2018 to record his second solo-album POLAR (release 2019). He and Dave were joined by guitarist Örn Eldjárn and bass-player Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson for recordings at Sundlaugin in Mosfellsbær. And after the global Covid break his third solo-album STILL followed in 2024.