Haywoode (born Sidney Haywoode, London) is an English female singer. She is best known for the 1986 UK Top 20 hit single, "Roses". She later also recorded under the name Sid Haywoode.
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Haywoode trained from an early age at London's Corona Stage Academy and was signed by CBS in 1983, following a number of acting, singing, dancing and modelling roles in the West End theatre, films and television.
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. Via a succession of singles - including a couple of tracks produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman, "You'd Better Not Fool Around" and "Getting Closer" - chart success appeared in July 1986 with the song "Roses". This was to be her only top 20 hit in the UK.[1] Her debut album Arrival (released soon after "Roses") included Haywoode's cover version of Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover".
Haywoode's sister is the singer Emma Haywoode, who in the 1990s released singles, such as "Need Your Lovin'" on the Boss Records label. Haywoode left the UK and went to the United States.
February 2010 saw the release on Cherry Red's, Cherry Pop label, of a digitally-remastered edition of Arrival, featuring seven bonus tracks.[2] She is to release a new album, The Bounce Back on 25 November 2011. It will be produced by the Australian team, Peter Wilson and Chris Richards (aka T1 Music), along with the Dutch producer, Matt Pop.