Haywoode (Sidney Haywoode, London) is an English singer and dancer, best known for the 1986 UK top 20 hit single "Roses". She later also recorded under the name Sid Haywoode.
Among singing, dancing and modelling roles in the West End theatre (Bubbling Brown Sugar), she joined Flick Colby's Zoo, as a professional dancer performing weekly on BBC One's Top of the Pops.
She was approached a year later to record a demo by Sony CBS Records offering a deal.
Her debut single, "A Time Like This", reached the Top 5 in the US Hot Dance Club Play Chart, and established her distinctive brand of soulful funk/pop. In July 1986 with the song "Roses" she hit the top 20 in the UK music charts. Her debut album Arrival (released soon after "Roses") included Haywoode's cover version of Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover".
In 2011 Haywoode released an album named Bounce Back, collaborating with different producers in Australia, Netherlands, Italy and United States. The album was a mixture of reproduced hits from her 80s career, as well as new tracks. It would later be re-released in 2019 as Bounce Back Deluxe.
In the summer of 2012, she created a music production company "Wonderlick Productions" with her writing partner and music producer Soundsinsane.
The song Excuses reached No. 6 on Euro Solution's Independent Hi Energy Dance Chart in UK with the remix of Excuses Produced by Soundsinsane/Haywoode and remix by JRMX in UK.
2018 saw her first single release "Roses 2018" enter charts worldwide including No. 5 Greece, No. 25 on the iTunes Dance Chart.
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Singles
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! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year
! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Single
! scope="col" colspan="3"|Peak chart positions
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! style="width:45px;"|<small>US Dance</small><br>
! style="width:45px;"|<small>UK</small><br>
! style="width:45px;"|<small>AUS</small><br>
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| rowspan="2"| 1983
| "A Time Like This"
| align=center | 5
| align=center | 48
| align=center | —
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| "Single Handed"
| align=center | —
| align=center | 85
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 1984
| "I Can't Let You Go"
| align=center | —
| align=center | 63
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="2"| 1985
| "Roses"
| align=center | —
| align=center | 65
| align=center | —
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| "Getting Closer"
| align=center | —
| align=center | 67
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="3"| 1986
| "You'd Better Not Fool Around"
| align=center | —
| align=center | 82
| align=center | —
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| "Roses" <small>(re-release)</small>
| align=center | 30
| align=center | 11
| align=center | 73
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| "I Can't Let You Go" <small>(re-recording) (Detroit Mix)</small>
| align=center | —
| align=center | 50
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 1987
| "I'm Your Puppet"
| align=center | —
| align=center | 98
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 1988
| "Boogie Oogie Oogie" <small>(as 'Sid Haywoode')</small>
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 1989
| "He's Got Magic" <small>(as 'Sid Haywoode')</small>
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 2010
| "Getting Closer 2010"
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 2011
| "Kiss Me Good"
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 2012
| "Excuses"
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 2014
| "Sugaboo"
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 2018
| "Roses 2018"
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| rowspan="1"| 2019
| "Look My Way"
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
| align=center | —
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| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
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References
External links
- Discography at Discogs.
- Discography at Musicbrainz.