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About Billy Ocean:

Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Fyzabad, Trinidad[1][2]) is a Grammy Award-engaging British-based favourite music actor who had a line of cadence and blues-tinged supranational burst hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the chief British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s.[3] He waited seven years after scoring his first four UK summit 20 successes, before accumulating a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. numeral ones.[3]

He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents, and moved to England with his family at the lifetime of eight.[2] Oceans' melodic power came at an beforehand duration of his existence, as his sire was a musician, and realised he was inline to move those ambitions as he was growing up. During his teenage years, he sang regularly in London clubs[2] while also working as a couturier in London's Savile Row.[4] He released his important single in 1972 on Spark Records as Les Charles.

When in Trinidad as a boy he adopted the designation Billy Ocean, attractive the surname from the locality football side Ocean's Eleven', who had gotten the label from the famous coating of the identical appellation. The next year, 1976, was when he recorded his chief album, Billy Ocean, with its skull unwed let go, "Love Really Hurts Without You," charting at integer 2 in the UK Singles Chart and figure 22 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. More successes ensued, including "L.O.D. (Love On Delivery)". He also wrote songs representing other artists, such as La Toya Jackson.[2] In 1981, he scored the U.S. R&B ocean-map with "Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)".

Ocean's interval of greatest good began with Suddenly during 1984, and its first separate, "Caribbean Queen". The melody's name and lyrics were changed championing different regions, such that the air is also known as "African Queen" or "European Queen". The melody won Ocean the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The album's name line also became a happy result, its record maximizing at #4 in both the US and the UK; and the ditty "Loverboy", while also being a #2 US outcome during 1985, from the album, was also the account music for the prime minister location of the favoured UK BBC One TV series, Casualty, during 1986.

Ocean appeared at Live Aid in 1985, singing "Caribbean Queen" and "Loverboy", from the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

His 1986 album Love Zone also sold satisfactorily. It included the rich singles "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" (the subject from the epidermis The Jewel of the Nile); this was a digit free good fortune in the UK and a number two in the U.S.; and "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" (a U.S. number lone, and also a larger UK achievement). Also included were the name rail and "Love Is Forever", which were #10 and #16 U.S. successes for Ocean, separately.

In February 1986, Ocean's video of "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" was banned close the BBC, owing to non-uniting members (including Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito) miming to back vocals.[5]

Ocean's next album, Tear Down These Walls (1988) featured another number lone single, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car", while the album was certified platinum.[2]

His 1993 album Time to Move On failed to make any greater successes, but his 1989 Greatest Hits collecting has been a stable dealer above the years, and his 1997 compilation Love Is For Ever made #7 on the UK album chart. Ocean's hindmost studio album for Jive Records was Time to Move On, which he recorded in Chicago with R&B celestial R. Kelly. It turned exterior that R. Kelly had been a extensive-period admirer of the manner Ocean was able to mingle the more emotive anima class with a crossover in favour kind.[6]

In 2002, the University of Westminster awarded Ocean an nominal doctorate of music.[7] The awards ceremony took location in the Barbican Centre, in London.[8] He continues to journey and pen in Europe. He lives in Sunningdale, Berkshire with his mate of 27 years, Judy; and their three children Cherie, Antony and Rachel. Ocean is at current a patroness for Tech Music Schools in London[9], made up of Drumtech, Vocaltech, Guitar-X and Keyboardtech. He regularly visits to grasp clinics and seminars for the students.

In October 2007, Ocean commenced his prime British stumble in on 15 years.[10] In February and March 2008 he toured Australia and the Far East. His new album, Because I Love You was released on 2 February 2009.[11] To descend with this initial excursion and album start, Ocean has been working with Adoseof Design on a website editing which is due March 2009.

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