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= Helena Kletch = Helena Kletch is a national indie-folk acoustic singer-songwriter-survivor from the Tampa Bay area of Florida. As a leukemia and bone marrow transplant survivor, Helena now focuses her talents on assisting other cancer survivors cope and fully recover.while also resuming her music career. Helena credits her music influences like the Dave Matthews Band, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and Gregory Alan Isakov.



Life and Music Career
Helena Kletch moved to the Tampa Bay area as a teenager from New Jersey. During her early years preparing for her future in entertainment, at age 16, Helena competed and sang in an "American Idol" style competition in Largo, Florida; she successfully placed as a top 5 semi-finalist.

In Tampa Bay, Kletch performed at regional clubs and events as a solo performer and as a duo with her colleague Adam under the name "Helena and the Bear". The duo was featured prominently during an entire TV episode on the show "Grassroots Grove".

For a few years, Kletch relocated to the Lake Tahoe region where she continued to work on refining her craft and music as a duo and solo artist. The duo Helena and the Bear performed several original songs live on the popular "Nevada Trails" TV show for the entire episode.

Later, while still in Lake Tahoe, Helena and J.T. Chevalier formed the duo Little Town.

Achieving national success and airplay as part of selling 5 of her songs to a division of Walt Disney Television, Helena's original singles “Baby” and “I’ll Be Your Girl” have been featured nationally on ABC Family's(later Freeform) hit TV show The Fosters. Specifically, her song "Baby" played during S1 E19 "Don't Let Go"; her song "I Think You Saved Me" played during S2 E1 "Things Unknown"; and her song “I’ll Be Your Girl” played in one scene  and her other song "Hey Meg" played in another scene during S2 E4 "Say Something". Helena has opened for artists such as Grammy Award-winner LeAnn Rimes, American Idol’s Kellie Pickler. and Cam Country.

Helena has also headlined at the global platform Ted Talks. The TEDx SouthLakeTahoe held at Lake Tahoe Community College featured Helena as a performer.

Since 2012, she has played shows and festivals across the country, gaining popularity as arguably one of the most intimate indie-folk singers of the current acoustic scene.

On ABC-TV affiliate WFTS-TV, Helena performed her song "Mary" live in August 2018.

Helena has also performed at different professional sporting events for the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team and the Tampa Bay Rays MLB team.

In 2018, after returning back to Tampa Bay, Helena was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia and treated at the H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Her sister Somali was Helena's life saving bone marrow donor.

After a long break from the stage recovering from her life altering medical issues, Helena finally returned to performing music publicly on March 26, 2022 after accepting an invitation from music colleagues.

Currently, Helena is writing new songs and working with well known Grammy nominated and multi-Dove winning producer Billy Smiley at Sound Kitchen Studios in Nashville.

Helena's first original song released from the collaboration with Smiley is "Otherside", dedicated to her friend Matt who had the same type of leukemia as Helena; unfortunately, Matt lost his struggle and this greatly impacted Helena inspiring this song.

On May 23, 2023, Legendary record producer Jack Douglas learned about Helena and during a radio interview on the "A Cat Named Mo" show hosted by Malibu Mo on WHPT The Bone 102.5 in Tampa Bay, Jack Douglas highly praised Helena and her music, specifically highlighting her songs             "Otherside" and "Oregon" as new music he enjoys!

In response to this, Helena received a special invitation from radio host Malibu Mo from "A Cat Named Mo" show on WHPT The Bone 102.5 to come to the radio station and play her songs "Otherside" and "Oregon" live on air. Helena's live on-air performance took place on June 6, 2023.

In addition to her solo career, Helena is a singer with The Rocket Man Show, a successful national Elton John traveling tribute band starring her brother-in-law Rus Anderson, who also works as a body double for Elton John for assorted projects and Elton has personally endorsed the band.

Leukemia Diagnosis, Struggle for Life and Arduous On-going Recovery Process
In late 2018, Helena felt challenged performing basic tasks and became easily winded when performing. After a medical evaluation, it was determined that Helena had an "aggressive" form of leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) on November 11th, 2018.

During Helena's challenging struggle for life, Helena stayed extremely positive and inspired support for her and others with similar challenges. In particular, 8 year old Noah Reed was notably impacted. "Reed decided to shave his head mid-January 2019 in honor of Kletch. He later posted a video on YouTube where it began to gain traction. Reed didn’t tell Kletch he was doing it; she didn’t find out until he surprised her on FaceTime." This special story about Noah Reed and Helena was also reported on by Lake Tahoe NBC 4 as well as FOX Reno 11.

Seeking to bring her leukemia under control, Kletch began chemotherapy in December 2018 until a bone marrow transplant was possible; the only option available to save her life. Though she was not a perfect match, Helena's sister Somali Rose was decided as the best bone marrow donor. Helena received her bone marrow transplant in April 2019 followed by a month in quarantine, to see if the transplant was successful. Fortunately, it was and now Helena is cancer free.

Though cancer free, the recovery process has been a continuous daily challenge for Helena including extreme bouts with PTSD, dysautonomia, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and assorted other related afflictions which can strike unexpectedly.

Hoping to provide support and encouragement for others facing similar circumstances and medical issues, Helena publicly shares her struggles regularly on social media and being extremely talented, Helena has utilized her brilliant songwriting and exceptional singing skills as another expressive outlet allowing people with similar struggles to cope and hopefully overcome what they face. The outpouring of support and gratitude on social media from her many fans and followers is overwhelming and motivates her to keep helping and always moving forward, even at times when it is difficult for her facing her own often painful medical episodes.

Discography
Grownup(2018)

Love Tax(circa 2011)