Sydney Youngblood

Youngblood worked across singer, recording artist and musician. The registers place that work in soul and house music. This article rests on 18 catalogued compositions, 31 issued recordings and 7 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Sydney Youngblood • Background — person • Birth Name — Sydney Ford • Born — 2 December 1960 • Birthplace — San Antonio, Texas, U.S. • Genre — * Dance • house • Occupation — Singer • Years Active — 1988–present • Label — * Circa Records • Virgin • Arista • RCA

Ford was born in Texas. 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. 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.

List of albums, with selected details and chart positions • Title — Album details — Peak chart positions • US — AUS — AUT — GER — NED — NZ — SWE — SWI — UK • Feeling Free Sydney Youngblood — * Released: 1989 * Label: Circa * Format: LP, cassette, CD * Titled Sydney Youngblood for North America — 185 — 59 — 7 — 9 — 56 — 19 — 5 — 9 — 23 • Passion, Grace and Serious Bass... — * Released: 1991 * Label: Circa * Format: LP, cassette, CD — — — 130 — 40 — 60 — — — — — — — 39 — — • Just the Way It Is — * Released: 1993 * Label: RCA * Format: Cassette, CD — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — • The Hat Won't Fit — * Released: 1994 * Label: RCA * Format: Cassette, CD — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — • Black Magic — * Released: February 2014 * Label: 7soul * Format: CD, digital — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

List of albums, with selected details • Title — Details • Hooked On You The Best Of — * Released: 1994 * Format: CD * Label: Virgin

• Year — Single — Peak positions — Album • UK — AUS — AUT — BEL (FL) — FRA — GER — IRE — NED — NZ — SWE — SWI — US • 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.

Sydney Youngblood was born on 2 December 1960 in San Antonio. Youngblood held the nationality of United States. Youngblood worked as singer, recording artist and musician. Youngblood was active from 1989. The fields Youngblood worked in include soul and house music. Youngblood played the flute and the voice. Youngblood worked in English and German.