Billy Ocean

Quick Facts

Full Name	Billy Ocean
Occupation	R&B Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1950(1950-01-21)
Age	74
Birthplace	Fyzabad
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Horoscope	Capricorn

Billy Ocean Biography

Billy Ocean is one of the most popular and richest R &B Singer who was born on January 21, 1950 in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago. English R&B performer who earned international recognition with songs such as “Caribbean Queen” and “Lover Boy.” He has been awarded awards such as Grammy Awards. Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

The album was recorded by him Time to Move On with R. Kelly in 1993.

Ocean was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago, to Hainsley Charles, a Grenadian musician and his wife Violet. His family moved to Romford, London, England, when he was ten years old in 1960, just before Trinidad and Tobago became independent. He was exposed to music at an early age. During his teenage years, he sang regularly in London clubs while also working as a tailor in London’s Savile Row. He was discovered by his first manager, John Morphew, who recorded a double A-side single at Pye Studios in London with a full orchestra. However, the ballad singing style of Les was going out of fashion and Morphew was unable to get any major label to release it. It remains unreleased. Les’s father—who had countersigned the management contract as Les was underage—asked Morphew to release him from contract, which he did without penalty. In 1969, he joined a local band, The Shades of Midnight, playing in the Shoreditch area of London. He recorded his first single, “Nashville Rain”, backed with “Sun in the Morning” in 1971 for Spark Records as Les Charles, and for two years fronted a studio band called Scorched Earth, with whom he released “On the Run” backed with “Let’s Put Our Emotions in Motion” in 1974.

Between 1976 and 1982, Ocean released four albums (Billy Ocean, City Limit, Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) and Inner Feelings) through his record label GTO, the albums none of which scored success on any musical charts aside from his biggest single up to that point, 1976’s “Love Really Hurts Without You”, which was a top 40 and a top 10 hit in both the UK (#2) and the US (#22).

He got married to Judy Bayne in 1978 and they had three children with names of Antony, Rachel and Cherie Charles.

Billy Ocean Net Worth

Billy Ocean is one of the richest R &B Singer from Trinidad and Tobago. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Billy Ocean 's net worth $12 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was tailor and was a performer in clubs as a teen in London.

He has composed music for artists such as The Toya Jackson and Boyzone.

Leslie Sebastian Charles, MBE (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular Trinidad–British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK Top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three US No. 1’s . His 1985 hit “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in the US. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” and in 1987 was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist. His 1988 hit “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car” reached No. 1 in the US and No. 3 in the UK. His 1986 hit “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)” also reached No. 1 in the US.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Billy Ocean Dating?

According to our records, Billy Ocean married to Judy Bayne. As of December 1, 2023, Billy Ocean’s is not dating anyone.

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In February 1986, Ocean’s video of “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” was banned by the BBC, owing to such non-union members as the American actors Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, all three of whom were cast members of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, miming to the backing vocals. At the 1987 Brit Awards, Ocean was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male.

Facts & Trivia

Billy Ranked on the list of most popular R &B Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Trinidad and Tobago. Billy Ocean celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

Ocean’s next album, Tear Down These Walls (1988), featured another No. 1 single, “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car”, while the album was certified platinum.

Why does Billy Ocean have 3 lungs?

The examination carried out by Dr Clare Greenwood (The O’Malley Clinic, Beverly Hills). This extra lung has been attributed with the longevity of Billy’s singing career. Ocean took his stage name from the Ocean Estate, Stepney in London’s East End, where he was living at the time.

Why did Billy Ocean stop singing?

Billy Ocean has revealed that he quit his music career for almost two decades because of his mother’s death from cancer in 1989.

What was Billy Ocean biggest hit?

No.TitleLength
1.| “ When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going “| 4:08
2.| “License to Chill”| 4:52
3.| “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)”| 4:06
4.| “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)”| 4:50

Are Billy Ocean and Frank Ocean related?

He’s Not Related to Billy Ocean Born Christopher “Lonny” Breaux, Ocean decided to change his name on his 22nd birthday in 2010.

How old is Billie Eilish?

20 years (December 18, 2001)