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Show love to your favourite act from the past that never made it big!
There are so many artists and group that have come and gone, many with the right ingredients to make it big... but for some reason, they never made it. Maybe they didn't have a good record deal, they worked with the wrong producers, they just came at the wrong time or whatever. Here's my entry...
N-TYCE (UK)
M'Chelle - top left, Ario - bottom left, Donna - top right, Chantal - bottom right.
N-Tyce were a four-member female group from the UK. I know there was also a US N-Tyce, but anyway... the UK group had four reasonably successful hits with "Hey DJ (Play The Song)" released in June 1997 - reached #20, "We Come To Party" released in September 1997 - reached #12, "Telefunkin'" released in February 1998 - reached #16, and "Boom Boom" (feat. Damon Elliott) released in May 1998, reached #18. Their album "All Day Every Day" was released in June of 1998 after the four singles all hit the top 20, with their lable hoping that N-Tyce would be more of an album-selling act. Unfortunately this wasn't the case and the group were dropped. I remember seeing the US single for "We Come To Party" around Florida in 1998, but I have no idea if it was any kind of a hit... I'm guessing that it wasn't. N-Tyce were mainly influenced by TLC's first two albums of the early 90's, and their third single "Telefunkin'" was a lot like the massive hit "Creep" by the US trio, featuring an almost-identical beat and husky low vocals from Ario on lead. N-Tyce were also compared to big UK group Eternal's early days, simply because both groups featured three black girls and one white! In other ways N-Tyce steered away from the sound of TLC, also taking influence from different genres like Reggae, Pop and Miami Base. I really loved N-Tyce and hoped for a while that they would return, thinking that they had done quite well with the singles and stuff, but then I didn't really understand that album sales were king and their label had given them up. I wonder what could've happened if they had been given a second chancel. Their label, Telstar, later took on Mis-Teeq in the UK before going into liquidation... nevermind, LOL!
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