Haywoode (Sidney Haywoode, London) is an English singer and dancer, best known for the 1986 UK

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hit single "Roses". She later also recorded under the name Sid Haywoode.

Career

Haywoode trained from an early age at London's Corona Stage Academy. Her career started with modelling, dancing and acting roles in British television shows like ''

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'' and was a regular as a Hill's Angel on ''

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''. Among singing, dancing and modelling roles in the West End theatre (''

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''), she joined Flick Colby's

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, as a professional dancer performing weekly on BBC One's ''

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''. 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

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/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

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". In 2011 Haywoode released an album named ''Bounce Back'', collaborating with different producers in Australia,

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, Italy and United States. 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

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Dance Chart. Another Cherry Pop compilation – Roses, Remixes & Rarities was released bringing together many sought-after mixes of her classic 80s singles plus B-sides, rarities and unheard recordings from throughout her CBS tenure. 2019 Haywoode released "Look My Way" a Stock Aiken Waterman song which was originally written for her and later recorded and released on

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's first album.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

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