| One True Voice | |
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| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Pop |
| Years active | 2002–-2003 |
| Members | |
| Anton Gordon Matt Johnson Daniel Pearce Keith Semple Jamie Shaw |
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One True Voice were a British boyband created on the ITV television series Popstars: The Rivals, which also produced girl group Girls Aloud. The band was created by the public, who voted for their favourite hopefuls each week. The male runners-up formed the boyband Phixx.
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The group, whose name was later shortened to OTV, was made up of:
Their debut single, "Sacred Trust/After You're Gone", went head-to-head with Girls Aloud on December 16, 2002, for the UK Christmas number one spot. One True Voice lost out to the girls and had to settle for the #2 position in the UK Singles Chart.[1] The group's manager, Pete Waterman, has speculated that the show was fixed against OTV, but has not said how.[2] The melody of "Sacred Trust" was derived from the 18th Variation in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, though the classical composer was not credited on the single.
One more Top 10 hit followed, in the form of "Shakespeare's (Way With) Words", which reached #10 in the UK, in June 2003.[1] The band were not allowed to write their own material, which the members found unacceptable. A few weeks later it was announced that Daniel Pearce, who as arranger and co-writer of some of their songs had quit the group to pursue a solo career. The next day the group disbanded. The group appeared at number 32 in Chantelle's Top 50 Reality TV Stars, ahead of both Phixx and Clea who also appeared in Popstars: The Rivals.
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions |
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Album | |
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IRE [7] |
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| 2002 | "Sacred Trust/After You're Gone" | 2 | 9 | Non-album songs | |
| 2003 | "Shakespeare's (Way With) Words" | 10 | 39 | ||
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