| Sydney Youngblood | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Sydney Ford |
| Birth Date: | 2 December 1960 |
| Birth Place: | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Genre: | Dance, house |
| Occupation: | Singer |
| Years Active: | 1988–present |
| Label: | Circa Records, Virgin, Arista, RCA |
Sydney Ford (born December 2, 1960), better known as Sydney Youngblood, is an American-German singer, actor and composer, who had several successful dance hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Ford was born in Texas in December 1960. From an early age he loved singing. He won a competition aged six in his hometown where his grandmother called him ‘youngblood’ for his ‘vibrancy’ to perform. He played in a number of bands but at age twenty, he enlisted into the US army and served in Germany for five years. Ford returned home and returned to music, only this time seeking fame and fortune as a solo artist. Signed to Virgin Records, his first release was a cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine", which made a short appearance in the lower section of the UK Singles Chart in 1988.
Youngblood had two top 40 hits in the UK and Europe in 1988 and 1989, "Sit and Wait" and his debut "If Only I Could", which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.[1] The song uses the bassline and drumbeat from the Raze track "Break 4 Love".
In the US, the song "I'd Rather Go Blind" (originally sung by Etta James) enjoyed heavy rotation on the dance scene and made the top 10 on the Billboard Dance chart. "Sit and Wait" reached number 16 in the UK in December 1989.
Youngblood continued his success with the album Feeling Free, which also contained his earlier single, "Ain't No Sunshine".
In 2018, Youngblood participated in the 12th season of the German reality show I'm a Star – Get Me Out of Here! on RTL Television.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [2] | AUS | AUT [3] | GER [4] | NED | NZ | SWE | SWI | UK | |||
| Feeling Free Sydney Youngblood |
| 185 | 59 | 7 | 9 | 56 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 23 | |
| Passion, Grace and Serious Bass... |
| — | 130 | 40 | 60 | — | — | — | 39 | — | |
| Just the Way It Is |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Hat Won't Fit |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Black Magic |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hooked On You The Best Of |
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| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [5] [6] | AUS [7] [8] | AUT [9] | BEL (FL) [10] | FRA [11] | GER [12] [13] | IRE [14] | NED [15] | NZ [16] | SWE [17] | SWI [18] | US [19] | ||||
| 1988 | "Ain't No Sunshine" | 78 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Feeling Free | |
| "Congratulations" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1989 | "If Only I Could" | 3 | 122 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 9 | 3 | — | ||
| "Sit and Wait" | 16 | 59 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 15 | 7 | — | 2 | 6 | — | |||
| 1990 | "I'd Rather Go Blind" | 44 | 71 | — | 34 | — | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | ||
| "Ain't No Sunshine" (France only) | — | — | — | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1991 | "Hooked on You" | 72 | 120 | — | — | 35 | 36 | — | — | — | 34 | 27 | — | Passion, Grace and Serious Bass... | |
| "Wherever You Go" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1993 | "Anything" | 48 | 163 | — | 27 | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Just the Way It Is | |
| "No Big Deal" | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1994 | "So Good So Right (All I Can Do)" | — | — | — | — | — | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Hat Won't Fit | |
| 1999 | "Christmas Song" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Singles only | |
| 2007 | "If Only I Could" (Tom Pulse vs. Sydney Youngblood) | — | — | — | — | — | 89 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2013 | "Sit and Wait 2013" (with Jesse Ritch) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||||
