Biography
He was innate inside Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago and moved to England with his personal at a age of eight. Inside his teenaged years, he sung regularly around London clubs. He freed his number 1 only inside 1974 under a assumed name Scorched Globe.

By 1976 he experienced adopted a title Billy Ocean & recorded his debut album, Billy Ocean, sustaining a number one lone, "Love Really Hurts Without You," charting at total Two in the United Kingdom and number Xxii in the United States. Other hits followed, like “L.O.D. (Love In Delivery)�. He as well wrote songs for more creative person like LaToya Jackson. Around 1982 he hit a America Rhythm & Blues Chart by having “Nights (Sense Prefer Contracting Down).�

Ocean's period of greatest profits began by owning Suddenly around 1984 & its independent lone "Caribbean Queen". A song's title & lyrics were changed for different regions, such that a song is also referred to as "African Queen" or even "European Queen". A album's title track besides became the hit. His 1986 album Love Zone too sold super easily, by using hit singles "When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" & "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)." His 1988 album Take down These Bulwarks experienced a second first individual, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car".

His late albums, like Period to Move In, L.I personally.F.E. & Encounter, failed to spawn hits, however his 1989 Greatest Hits collection has been a steadily trafficker on top the years.

Around 2002, a University of Westminster awarded Ocean an honorary doctorate of music. He continues to tour & record around Europe.

Trivia
Hip-hop artist Big Boi of OutKast uses the title "Billy Ocean" as an alias, a information to the performing artist.

Discography
Albums
Billy Ocean (GTO 1976) City Limit (GTO 1980) Nights Feel Like Getting Down (GTO 1981) Inner Feelings (Epic 1982) Suddenly(album) (Jive 1984) Love Zone (Jive 1986) Tear Down These Walls (Jive 1988) Greatest Hits (Jive 1989) Time To Move On (Jive 1993) L.I.F.E. (Jive 1997) ''Let's Get Back Together'' (Jive 2003)

Singles and Hot 100 history
1976 "Love Really Hurts Without You" (#22) 1980 "Are You Ready" / "Stay the Night" (#83 US Dance) 1981 "Stay the Night" / "Night (Feel Like Getting Down)" (#4 Usa Dance) 1984 "Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)" (#1 2 weeks, #1 Usa Dance) 1985 "Loverboy" (#2, #1 U.s.a. Dance) 1985 Suddenly (#4) 1985 "Mystery Lady" (#24) 1986 "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" (#2, #31 America Dance) 1986 "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" (#1, seven days) 1986 "Hold On Brother" (#48 United states of america Dance) 1986 "Love Zone" (#10) 1986 "Love Is Forever" (#16) 1988 "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" (#1 both weeks, #25 United states of america Dance) 1988 "The Color Of Love" (#17) 1989 "License To Chill" (#32)