P.Y.T.

PYT was a Florida-based girl group in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Unlike many pop groups, P.Y.T.'s formation was not the result of scouting by a talent agency or a series of auditions - instead, these Tampa teenagers - Lauren Mayhew , Ashley Niven, Lydia Bell, Tracy Williams - had all been childhood friends. They had previously performed together in the Tampa Bay's Entertainment Revue (through Busch Gardens). The band formed, as Glory, to enter a contest in Teen People magazine. They recorded a demo which instead of entering in the contest made its way to Dave McPherson of Epic Records who signed to a record contract in 1999. The band was renamed P.Y.T. derived from a Michael Jackson song entitled "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),"...