Sydney Youngblood

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Sydney Youngblood at Schleswig-Holstein-Tag in Neumünster 2008

Sydney Youngblood (* 2. December 1960 in San Antonio , Texas , as a Sydney Ford ) is one in Germany living American Soul singer, the late 1980s and early 1990s successes in the international hit parade celebrated. His Indian grandmother gave him the name "Youngblood" as a toddler, which he has been using as a pseudonym ever since .

life and career

At the age of six, Sydney Ford won a talent competition in San Antonio and became enthusiastic about music from an early age. At the age of 20 the artist came to Mannheim in Germany, where he did his military service in the US Army and later stayed there. Here, together with other musicians, he founded an R&B band that gained fame in the Rhine-Neckar area , so that at the end of the 1980s he was offered a recording contract as a solo artist.

His debut album Feeling Free , released in autumn 1989, gave him the international breakthrough and the reputation that goes with it . Youngblood was able to celebrate worldwide chart successes in 1989 with the singles if Only I Could and Sit and Wait and won several gold records , but in the following years did not come close to the fame of bygone times, although his subsequent singles were able to place in the charts.

After selling over five million records, Youngblood returned to the United States in 1997 when his brother died there.

In January 2018, Youngblood was a participant in the 12th season of the reality show I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here! .

In autumn 2019 he could be seen on Das Supertalent .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US R&B R&B
1989 Feeling Free (EU) /
Sydney Youngblood (US) 		DE9
gold
gold

(35 weeks)DE 		AT7 (21 weeks)
AT 		CH9
gold
gold

(16 weeks)CH 		UK23
gold
gold

(17 weeks)UK 		US185 (3 weeks)
US 		R&B72 (5 weeks)
R&B
First published: October 1989
Producer: Claus Zundel
1991 Passion, Grace and Serious Bass ... DE60 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT40 (2 weeks)
AT 		- - - -
First published: August 1991
Producer: Claus Zundel

More albums

  • 1993: Just the Way It Is
  • 1994: The Hat Won't Fit
  • 1994: Hooked on You: The Best Of (compilation)
  • 2014: Black Magic
  • 2018: Tonight

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US R&B R&B
1988 Ain't No Sunshine
Feeling Free 		- - - UK78 (4 weeks)
UK 		- R&B51 (8 weeks)
R&B
First published: June 1988
Entry into the US R&B charts only in March 1991
Author and original: Bill Withers , 1971
1989 If Only I Could
Feeling Free 		DE3
gold
gold

(28 weeks)DE 		AT3
gold
gold

(17 weeks)AT 		CH3 (17 weeks)
CH 		UK3
silver
silver

(15 weeks)UK 		- -
First published: August 1989
Authors: Sydney Youngblood, Ralf Hamm,
Markus Staab, Claus Zundel
contains samples from Break 4 Love by Raze, 1988
Sit and Wait
Feeling Free 		DE2 (23 weeks)
DE 		AT2 (14 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (13 weeks)
CH 		UK16 (8 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: November 1989
Authors: Sydney Youngblood, Ralf Hamm,
Markus Staab, Claus Zundel
contains samples from Gwen Guthrie's hit
Ain't Nothin 'Goin' On but the Rent , 1986
1990 I'd Rather Go Blind
Feeling Free 		DE23 (15 weeks)
DE 		- - UK44 (5 weeks)
UK 		US46 (11 weeks)
US 		R&B42 (11 weeks)
R&B
First published: March 1990
Authors: Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan
Original: Etta James , 1968
1991 Hooked on You
Passion, Grace and Serious Bass ... 		DE36 (14 weeks)
DE 		- CH27 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK72 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First publication: June 1991
Authors: Sydney Youngblood, Ralf Hamm,
Markus Staab, Claus Zundel
1993 Anything
Just the Way It Is 		DE51 (10 weeks)
DE 		- - UK48 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First publication: March 1993
Authors: Sydney Youngblood, Ralf Hamm,
Markus Staab, Claus Zundel
1994 So Good so Right (All I Can Do)
The Hat Won't Fit 		DE91 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - - - -
First published: June 1994
Authors: The P 'n' T Tribe of Soulsters
2007 If Only I Could (Remix)
 DE89 (1 week)
DE 		- - - - -
First published: March 17, 2007
Tom Pulse vs. Sydney Youngblood

More singles

  • 1988: Congratulations (release: December)
  • 1991: Wherever You Go
  • 1993: No Big Deal
  • 1999: Christmas Song
  • 2008: Aerobic Disco (Di Fumetti feat. Sydney Youngblood; release: September 15th)
  • 2013: If Only I Could 2013 (BK Duke Remix) (feat.Bruce Niederfeld and Markus S. Aka Supermercato; release: September 13th)
  • 2013: Sit and Wait 2013 (with Jesse Ritch ; release: September 13th)
  • 2017: Remixes 2017 (including So Good so Right , I'd Rather Go Blind , Sit and Wait , If Only I Could ; release: August 20)
  • 2018: Let The Music Play (released January 12, 2018)

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US1 US2
  2. ↑ a b gold / platinum databases: DE AT CH UK
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
  4. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Youngblood, Sydney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ford, Sydney (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas