Background
Harvey was born in Walthamstow, London.
Harvey was born in Walthamstow, London.
Harvey was initially slated to be a backup singer and dancer for, but during the initial recording session he was heard singing along by the recording staff and was promptly instated as the lead singer of the band. Harvey"s vocal style emulated Rhythm & Blues and new jack swing vocalists from the United States His vocals put him into a position of the band"s frontman, or main member, which was shared with the band"s creator, songwriter, instrumentalist, rapper and singer Tony Mortimer. Throughout the course of the band"s career the two leads had many disagreements, from how to vocalise songs to their behaviour in public.
This tore the band between spiritual popular/hip-hop (Mortimer"s writing influence) and Rhythm & Blues (the other band members) which would eventually lead to Mortimer leaving the band and Harvey becoming the only lead singer.
Harvey was sacked from the band after making comments in a radio interview that appeared to condone the use of the drug ecstasy. Mortimer left several months later.
He eventually rejoined the band under the rebranded name of. As, the band had two United Kingdom Top 20 singles between 1998 to 1999 with the album Resurrection reaching the United Kingdom Top 50.
In 2000, he collaborated with True Steppers with the song "True Step Tonight" featuring Donell Jones that reached northern
26 in the United Kingdom. After, he signed a record deal with Edel Records and had two singles released in 2001, "Straight Up (Number Bends)" (#) and "Loving You (Ole Ole Ole)" (#20 United Kingdom). On 17 March 2007, Harvey performed a song entitled "I Can" for Making Your Mind Up, the United Kingdom"s national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was written by singer Conner Reeves.
Harvey was eliminated after the first round of voting and the eventual winners were Scooch.