Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean
Billy Oceanis a Trinidadian-born English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular 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 U.S. number ones. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, "Caribbean Queen", and in...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth21 January 1950
CityFyzabad, Trinidad And Tobago
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work
Success can create more madness than happiness.
My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
Get out of my dreams, get into my car.
And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.