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
The Gentle Touch and was a regular as a Hill's Angel on
The Benny Hill Show. Among singing, dancing and modelling roles in the West End theatre (
Bubbling Brown Sugar), she joined
Flick Colby's
Zoo, as a professional dancer performing weekly on BBC One's
Top of the Pops. 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
funk/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
cover version of
Prince's "
I Wanna Be Your Lover". In 2011 Haywoode released an album named
Bounce Back, collaborating with different producers in Australia,
Netherlands, Italy and United States. The album was a mixture of reproduced hits from her 80s career, as well as new tracks. It would later be re-released in 2019 as
Bounce Back Deluxe. 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
iTunes 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
Kylie Minogue's debut album. ==Discography==