His debut album, «Sete Fados e Alguns Cantos», is release in 1999, by the record label Ocarina, critically acclaimed by WOMEX's magazine "Strictly Mundial".
Followed by this album, Helder begins to creat his own "tertúlias" and Fado gatherings, in a way to reflect and recreat the ones which he attended in his youth, which gave him more ground to prepare his second album, "Luz de Lisboa".