Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Here you are
- Best of Billy Ocean
- Songs Made Famous by Billy Ocean
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1950-01-21
adult contemporarycaribbean queencontemporary r&bdance-popdiscopop
Discography
- Billy Ocean1976
- City Limit1980
- Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)1981
- Inner Feelings1982
- Suddenly1984
- Love Zone1986
- Tear Down These Walls1988
- Time to Move On1993
- Because I Love You2009
- Here You Are2013
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,011,122
- Total plays
- 9,265,056
Tags
popsoul80sDiscornb
Leslie Sebastian Charles (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-British singer and songwriter. Between 1976 and 1988, he achieved international success with a series of hit singles in the UK and abroad. He is known for songs such as "Love Really Hurts Without You" (1976), "Red Light Spells Danger" (1977), "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" (1984), "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" (1985) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Ocean
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sebastian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Fyzabad
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Live Aid
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- steelpan
- Record label
- Jive Records
- Official website
- www.billyocean.com
- Image
- BillyOcean.jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Billy Ocean
- date of birth
- 1950-01-21
- social media followers
- 617000
- birth name
- Leslie Sebastian Charles
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- pseudonym
- Billy Ocean
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Billy Ocean, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
