One True Voice

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One True Voice was a British boyband created by the ITV television series Popstars: The Rivals, which also produced girl group Girls Aloud.

The group, whose name was later shortened to OTV, was made up of: Anton Gordon (from London), Matt Johnson (from north Wales), Daniel Pearce (from Kent), Keith Semple (from Larne, Northern Ireland), and Jamie Shaw (from Cardiff).

Their debut single, "Sacred Trust/After You're Gone", went head-to-head with Girls Aloud on December 16, 2002, for the Christmas number one spot. One True Voice lost out to the girls and had to settle for the #2 position. The group's manager, Pete Waterman, has speculated that the show was fixed against OTV, but has not said how.[1]

One more Top 10 hit followed, in the form of "Shakespeare's (Way With) Words", in June 2003, before the members disbanded. Since then, Matt auditioned unsuccessfully for The X Factor in 2004 and Keith has reformed his pre-OTV band, the Keith Semple Band. Jamie has dabbled in a bit of TV presenting on local Welsh television. The male runners-up from Popstars: The Rivals formed Phixx.