Anne-Marie Helder is a British singer and songwriter, best known for fronting the UK rock band Panic Room. She has also performed internationally as a solo artist and with various bands since circa the year 2000. In 2005 she supported Fish on his Return to Childhood tour, and since then she has opened shows for artists including Midge Ure, Nick Harper, Glenn Tilbrook (of Squeeze) and then was the supporting act for the Ultravox tour in 2010, Creamy Jobe From 1999 to 2002, Helder was a member of the band Creamy Jobe, based in South Wales, in which she was one of three lead vocalists. Helder also played the keyboard and flute. Writing their own music, the band also included Guy Wendon, Chris Woodman, Mathew Dermody and Steve Lott. Creamy Jobe were selected to play for the BBC Music Live Week in 2000, which saw them tour music venues around the Swansea area and culminated in a performance on the BBC stage in Singleton Park, Swansea on 20 May 2000. This coincided with their only album release – Creamy Jobe Greatest Hits II – Voices on Vinyl. Helder appeared with Creamy Jobe on 23 August 2014 in a reunion to celebrate 15 years since the original formation of the band. Karnataka From 2001 to 2004, Helder was a member of the Welsh band Karnataka, along with Jonathan Edwards and two other members of Panic Room (Paul Davies and Gavin John Griffiths). When the band split in 2004, these four continued to work together, which is where the ideas and music for Panic Room were born. Karnataka bassist Ian Jones later reformed the band without any of the other former members. Solo album Helder released her solo EP The Contact in November 2004, which received positive reviews and secured airplay on BBC Radio 2, with DJ Bob Harris declaring: "this is very dramatic music". UK national music magazine Classic Rock gave the EP an 8/10 review, and since its release Helder has toured across the UK, Europe and the US, playing both headline shows and supports for other artists. Panic Room In 2006 Helder began working with a group of musicians, including Paul Davies, Jonathan Edwards, and Gavin Griffiths, all of whom she had performed with previously in Karnataka, to start a new band project. This band evolved to become Panic Room. In 2008 they released their debut album Visionary Position,