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Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Fyzabad, Trinidad) is a Grammy Award-winning British-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the main British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. He waited seven years after scoring his first four UK top 20 successes, before accumulating a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones.
He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents, and moved to England with his family at the age of eight. Oceans’ musical influence came at an early age of his life, as his father was a musician, and realised he was inline to follow those ambitions as he was growing up. During his teenage years, he sang regularly in London clubs while also working as a tailor in London’s Savile Row. He released his first single in 1972 on Spark Records as Les Charles.
When in Trinidad as a boy he adopted the name Billy Ocean, taking the surname from the local football team ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, who had gotten the name from the famous film of the same name. The next year, 1976, was when he recorded his first album, Billy Ocean, with its first single release, “Love Really Hurts Without You,” charting at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and number 22 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. More successes ensued, including “L.O.D. (Love On Delivery)”. He also wrote songs for other artists, such as La Toya Jackson. In 1981, he scored the U.S. R&B chart with “Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)”.
He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents, and moved to England with his family at the age of eight. Oceans’ musical influence came at an early age of his life, as his father was a musician, and realised he was inline to follow those ambitions as he was growing up. During his teenage years, he sang regularly in London clubs while also working as a tailor in London’s Savile Row. He released his first single in 1972 on Spark Records as Les Charles.
When in Trinidad as a boy he adopted the name Billy Ocean, taking the surname from the local football team ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, who had gotten the name from the famous film of the same name. The next year, 1976, was when he recorded his first album, Billy Ocean, with its first single release, “Love Really Hurts Without You,” charting at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and number 22 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. More successes ensued, including “L.O.D. (Love On Delivery)”. He also wrote songs for other artists, such as La Toya Jackson. In 1981, he scored the U.S. R&B chart with “Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)”.
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thanks tonia [3]
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@renan_mtv olha tanto faz???
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thanks tonia
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coanta wrote:
Happy Birthday, Billy! ;-)
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happy birthday,my friend
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né \/
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everybody hates chris hahaha
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tricksterc wrote:
LOL! Remembered fondly from my youth...Had know idea he was British based.
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Childhood started and ended here
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My 1000th scrobbled artist
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@joaolinz Beth Labell who? É Patti LaBelle. '-'
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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going ♥ love this song with a long and hard to remember title :)
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joaolinz wrote:
Billy Ocean no Pacific Ocean, pra mim. beth labell pra mamae e mais billy ocean pra mim
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love.
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Billy Ocean no Pacific Ocean, pra mim.
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